On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 06:53:55AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Subject: Re: de-modularising for the win!
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Jeremy Katz (katzj(a)redhat.com) said:
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:13 -0700, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > - killing the initrd for that general 90% case can be a big win
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> Ermm, the general 90% (or some large-ish generalizing percentage) are
> set up to use LVM. Which then requires an initrd.
Yes, but ... LVM is overkill, in general. (That's another discussion.)
On further consideration, though, the biggest issue with kicking out
the initrd is getting the policy lodaed.
But, won't we all be using btrfs instead of lvm in F11? ;-)