> Any objections/feedback? > > I'm wondering if there are other devices with the same issue. > Unfortunately, I cannot remember if there's a ramdisk limit for the HP > mv2120 but I don't think so. The various plug devices boot from disk > and the newer QNAP devices have 9 MB space for the ramdisk. So I > think it's mostly an issue with the TS-109/TS-209 and TS-409.
Size of initrd is always an issue on embedded platform. Surely XZ can extremely reduce the size, however as I remember, it takes MUCH more time to finish update-initramfs command. Did you evaluate how long does it take to generate one initramfs image on QNAP box? Maybe I missed a kernel module that can speed up the xz compression, I cannot finish update-initramfs within 5 minutes, which is too long for me. So I'm curious how fast on your box. Cheers, Roger
