On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 09:42:40AM +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
On 11/15/2012 09:17 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
So far no one is able to explain why it is needed other than It's a fad or it's cool..
You have a 20MB RAM disc that you think you have to load and do secret things before you start my OS.
I have a 12GB root disk (and RH/Fedora on their "Excuses for UsrMerge page, claims to need 400GB in root?! Talk about a broken model to be following!)
Never the less, a 14 GB root with over 50% free.. and What, can't I put on my root hard disk that you have to have initrd?
The drivers on my kernel are built-in. You are deliberately making people use a ram disk for no reason.
Give me ANY reason. and don't say it's to mount /usr
It is to mount /
The alternative would be to have one kernel for every driver that could possibly be needed - this is the way it used to be, and it was ugly
It is more than only mounting / ... First of all it is that the file system of / should not be accessed before the system time of the kernel is in UTC, then the file system check should be done without accessing the file system, and last but not least it should be mounted with correct time stamps. With modern journaling file systems this is required and not using an initrd would increase the risk of loosing data. Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org