Re: initrd question

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Saturday, February 28 2009, Richard W.M. Jones said:
> But I don't understand why we don't just put every possible block
> device driver / LVM / crypto module / etc. into the initrd.  The
> ramdisk is discarded as soon as the root filesystem is mounted, so at
> most we're saving a few kilobytes of disk space.  At the same time,
> mkinitrd is massively more complicated than it really needs to be, and
> initrd images are non-portable between machines[*].

Yes, this is because of a lot of historical reasons that really aren't
worth the time it'd take to go through them.  Work on dracut will
hopefully lead to changes/improvements here, but it's not going to be ready 
in time for F11.  Hopefully F12, though

Jeremy