Re: [Cooker] RPM kernel upgrades Howto? TOO EASY!!!

[Andrej Borsenkow]

On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote:

> So sprach Andrej Borsenkow am Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:09:27PM +0400:
> > >
> > > This could be solved giving a pre-built initrd with kernels.
> > >
> >
> > I second that.
>
> Uhm, while this sounds nice - what do you want to put all into this generic
> initrd?  There are quite some SCSI drivers out there; including them all
> will make the initrd huge, I suppose.  And also include reiserfs even if
> people don't use it?
>

And now kernel includes ext2 even for people who do not use it? Honestly
speaking, I'd very much like reiser to be static - I always shudder
thinkng about root fs support not being in kernel.

Why not distribute minimal initrd that would include support for booting -
i.e. SCSI drivers, possibly LAN drivers, and filesystems? Will it be as
large? At least, if creation of local initrd fails, you can still boot
your system.

I do not need *any* external module except reiser - and still, my initrd
is 650K large. The sum of kernel/drivers/{net,scsi} kernel/fs/* sizes is
3723 blocks == 1.8M - I expect, compressed it will be about 650K.

-andrej