Linda Walsh wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 16:14 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
die initrd die; eliminating it just eliminates a potential failure point.
On one hand I agree. On the other, I wonder about things like diskless installs that boot over the network. Accessing a kernel and an initrd file via tftp is no problem. More than that seems complicated...
Machines in the 80's and 90's did it all the time. They didn't have the luxury of having enough RAM to put a file system on RAM. It's more straight forward than booting from an INITRD -- as you boot the kernel which already had all the drivers it needed for your hardware built-in.. Then it mounted a remote NFS root and brought up services from that.
Now that we do have the luxury of enough RAM, it's difficult to see the advantage of not using an initrd. From my (even if somewhat limited) perspective, loading one or two files over the network for a PXE boot makes no big difference. (yes, I have a number of boxes that boot over PXE, plus some that have root on NFS or iSCSI). -- Per Jessen, Zürich (14.1°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org