On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 01:25:02PM +0100, David Hare wrote: > The standard Debian initrd has grown enormously since the days of squeeze.. > > The devuan-minimal iso's initrd is 27.1 MB gzip-compressed, 18.6 > xz-compressed and.. 186.1MB unpacked!
Yep, that is the main problem, indeed. I am currently trying to identify the culprits. It seems that after all the actual set of modules included in the initrams are not resposnible for all that space. I will pin down the useless stuff, hopefully :) > > Far as I know it's freed after switch_root but I assume the point here > is what to do for very low-ram systems.. > > Well, I believe that most of the standard stuff in the initramfs can be discarded in our specific case. I will keep you posted. HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
