On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 06:55:09PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 10:19:20AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 13:07 -0400, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > I just noticed this ~168% size increase in initramfs files on Fedora 42 > > > (they are Fedora 43 kernels, shouldn't matter). > > > > > > 35M -rw-------. 1 root root 35M Jul 8 19:33 > > > initramfs-6.16.0-0.rc5.65.fc43.x86_64.img > > > 59M -rw-------. 1 root root 59M Jul 20 12:45 > > > initramfs-6.16.0-0.rc6.52.fc43.x86_64.img > > > > > > All subsequent initramfs are of the larger size including fc42 kernels. > > > > > > $ sudo lsinitrd initramfs-6.16.0-0.rc5.65.fc43.x86_64.img | grep dracut > > > Version: dracut-105-3.fc42 > > > > > > $ sudo lsinitrd initramfs-6.16.0-0.rc6.52.fc43.x86_64.img | grep dracut > > > Version: dracut-107-1.fc42 > > > > > > > > > Is anyone else seeing a big jump in initramfs files? Is it expected? > > > > Run lsinitrd on them and diff the output? > > Comparing an old and new initramfs I see a tonne more files across a > great many dirs: > > * usr/lib/firmware > * usr/lib/modules/$VER/kernel/arch/x86/crypto > * usr/lib/modules/$VER/kernel/drivers/char/tpm > * usr/lib/modules/$VER/kernel/drivers/crypto > * usr/lib/modules/$VER/kernel/drivers/net > * usr/lib/modules/$VER/kernel/fs > * usr/lib/modules/$VER/kernel/net
...but in terms of individual file size, the really big additions are NetworkManager & lvm, and the various deps they have. The 30 biggest extra files in my initramfs from dracut 107, vs previous 105 are: # tail -30 extra.txt 837072 usr/lib64/libkrb5.so.3.3 861664 usr/bin/xfs_db 874752 usr/bin/xfs_repair 886480 usr/bin/gawk 898440 usr/lib64/libtss2-fapi.so.1.0.0 898440 usr/lib64/libtss2-fapi.so.1.0.0 940496 usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4.8.0 940496 usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4.8.0 940496 usr/lib64/libcurl.so.4.8.0 949520 usr/bin/nmcli 980216 usr/lib64/libnftables.so.1.1.0 980216 usr/lib64/libnftables.so.1.1.0 1485320 usr/lib64/libp11-kit.so.0.4.1 1485320 usr/lib64/libp11-kit.so.0.4.1 1485320 usr/lib64/libp11-kit.so.0.4.1 1524136 usr/lib64/libnm.so.0.1.0 1524136 usr/lib64/libnm.so.0.1.0 1756032 usr/lib64/libunistring.so.5.0.0 1756032 usr/lib64/libunistring.so.5.0.0 1756032 usr/lib64/libunistring.so.5.0.0 1934632 usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0.8504.0 1934632 usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0.8504.0 1934632 usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0.8504.0 2081688 usr/bin/dhclient 2783400 usr/bin/lvm 2889016 usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.30.40.4 2889016 usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.30.40.4 2889016 usr/lib64/libgnutls.so.30.40.4 3700224 usr/bin/NetworkManager 13763628 etc/udev/hwdb.bin With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
