Re: [OSR-devel] initrd cleanup

[Mark H. <hla...@at...>]

On Friday 12 October 2007 11:53:08 Gordan Bobic wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Mark Hlawatschek wrote:
> >> Thus, in the initrd_cleanup, I would need to rm -rf
> >> /var/comoonics/chroot/lib/modules ?
> >
> > In my opinion it would be better to modify the create_chroot function.
> > Here, the files are copied from the initrd. We wouldn't need to copy
> > the /lib/modules.
>
> But wouldn't that only be useful for the disk based init root? I see this
> as an issue only for the ramdisk init root. Or does the init ramdisk make
> a new ramdisk root if there is no disk for init root?
Yes is creates a new ramdisk root when there is no local disk assigned.
>
> Basically, if the init root is being moved to a local disk, then the fact
> that the dedicated partition needs to be 70MB bigger isn't such a huge
> deal. An extra 70MB of RAM being uses is a considerably more
> serious issue.
I agree with you.

Mark