Re: module 90kernel-modules-loaded

[Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>]

Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Seewer Philippe wrote:
> 
>> That would mean adding tons of drivers and another layer of complex 
>> code to decide at runtime what parts of the initrd to run.
> 
> I could argue the same for the drivers for the block devices and their 
> tools. If the root is using NFS, there is no need for a block device 
> detection; this however is still needed for iSCSI (and possibly FCoE in 
> the future).

Exactly.

> 
> Maybe allow at build time to specify what boot drivers+tools to be 
> included ? This would certainly reduce the generic-ness of the 
> initramfs, but would also reduce the size and complexity.

dracut can already do this. I was speaking about an initrd of doom which 
would include all manners of drivers and tools to boot from/to anything.

> 
>> For net-boots I couldn't care less about boot time and the size of the 
>> initrd.
> 
> I do. When I boot 100+ cluster nodes at once from a single server, I 
> want to minimize the network traffic at a minimum, especially a part 
> that happens over UDP.

He. point taken.

> 
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