Rob van der Heij wrote:
* The entire ramdisk thing that modern distributions use is a royal PITA as far as footprint is concerned. I have tried to make that also use NSS but could not get that done. So while you carefully save 1 MB of virtual machine in the kernel, immediately after that the ramdisk unpacks in virtual storage and touches 8 MB or so. The proper way would be a kernel with built-in drivers and avoid the ramdisk at startup. On VM very realistic because we don't need that many different drivers (and the size of the shared kernel does not matter so much).
The ramdisk should be able to be put, uncompressed, into a DASD all by itself, and mounted from there. Or placed, unpacked into /boot along with the kernel. A DASD probably is simpler, being a near drop-in replacement for where the initrd gets mounted. Probably best done by a vendor, but someone with the hardware could give it some thought. Can VDISK be profitably used in place of tmpfs? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
