It is possible, but the script need to know exactly which drivers are required for your platform. This could further optimize boot_archive size and speed up overall OS boot time too, however, you will not be able to move HDD between motherboards (as an example), without re-creation of the archive first..
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 22:50 +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote: > Il Tuesday 08 April 2008 22:29:01 Erast Benson ha scritto: > > Guys, > > > > I just uploaded 1.0.1-test3 for your testing pleasure. > > Please give it a try - if we will not find much of show stoppers in this > > one, we will move it to stable - probably by the end of this week. > > > > Few important fixes in this release: > > > > 1) libdlpi now works more reliably with recent name vanity putback > > > > 2) significantly improved speed of boot_archive creation - up to 5 times > > faster now... on my test box it takes ~ 7 seconds to recreate archives > > (comparing to 60 seconds before the change) > > > > 3) disabled broken UFS/manual partitioning related code in installer > > > > Link: http://www.nexenta.org/releases > > > > Hi, > nice to see that Nexenta's development has reprised so firmly :) > May I ask, out of curiosity, why the boot_archive file ends up always > being huge? I see that it's an UFS image with a lot of software > needed to boot the OS, but is it possible to shrink it as much > as linux's initrd (that includes only the drivers and the fs code > to access the device on which the OS's / is) ? > _______________________________________________ > gnusol-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel > _______________________________________________ gnusol-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/gnusol-devel
