Re: Linux mdadm superblock question.

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Feb 17 2010 - 17:27:29 EST


On 02/17/2010 10:46 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>
> well at the moment it takes less than two seconds until init takes over.
>
> Adding .5 seconds is a lot. And loading the initrd and changing root isn't
> free either, true?
>
> I remember well all the noise in the past about making linux booting faster.
> So why slow it down with an initrd - especially if you can do without?
>

Note that an extremely lightweight initramfs can quite possibly be
faster than doing it in the kernel, just because userspace is so much
less constrained. I was hoping klibc would catch on for this stuff, but
it hasn't as much as I'd like.

-hpa
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/