Re: [SSI] [PATCH] cluster_mkinitrd

[Brian J. W. <Bri...@co...>]

On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 10:53 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:

> Yes alpha binaries are larger than x86 binaries . But  19000 may not be
> needed. A 'df' on the ramdisk gives me only 28% filled. BTW is it really
> a problem if we  have large ramdisk. I guess after  loading the ramdisk
> kernel will free the unused space.I just kept it high because it won't
> fail.
>

Bigger ramdisks take longer to download during netboot. I'll run a test 
tommorrow to see if a compressed, zero-padded 19000 KB ramdisk image is 
much bigger than a compressed, zero-padded 7000 KB ramdisk image.

Brian