Linda Walsh wrote:
Brian K. White wrote:
On 6/11/2013 2:23 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
Now that we do have the luxury of enough RAM, it's difficult to see the advantage of not using an initrd.
It's nearly twice as slow than w/o it?
It's easier to slip something unseen into your initrd than it is the kernel?
just to think of a few...
No doubt those are valid reasons, although I had more functionality- oriented ones in mind. For my situation, those two reasons don't really apply: loading the initrd only takes slightly longer than loading the kernel, so a total of a few seconds (apprx 4Mb kernel + 6M initrd). In comparison, most servers take much longer to initiate/run the POST. I guess someone could "slip" something into mkinitrd and therefore into the initrd, but as I trust the distro and I trust mkinitrd, it's a "risk" I can live with. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.4°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