Re: Re: Minimal snapshots for cooker available.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Per Øyvind Karlsen <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Den 19:14 20. januar 2012 skrev Matthew Dawkins <[email protected]>
> følgende:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Franck Bui <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Matthew Dawkins <[email protected]> writes:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> >
> >> > What kmod is that? i have been checking the kernels ever since you
> >> > mentioned it to me.
> >>
> >> I think I've already described how to get/use it somewhere else...
> >>
> >> > My main problem ATM are building solid initrd imgs and the unioning fs
> >> > needed in the livecd. Currently the kernels are requiring mkinitrd and
> >> > not dracut.
> >>
> >> If you can detail further maybe I could have a look and help.
> >>
> >> > We could drastically clean up what is needed in the initrd if we
> >> > started migrating to dracut and a static busybox.
> >>
> >> Perhaps, but my goal was not to have the smallest image, but a snapshot
> >> of current cooker ready to use in various context.
> >>
> >> --
> >>                Franck
> >
> >
> >
> > Well, maybe we can address one issue at a time.
> Aren't you doing the exact opposite here..? ;p
>
:P

> >
> > What would it take to get dracut to replace mkinitd?
> It's already replaced mkinitrd since a while ago (although for people
> upgrading and
> already using mkinitrd, this stayed as default).
>
The kernels afaik from checking still require mkinitrd
If dracut is working and there are no problems booting with initramfs
images, then way not finally switch?

> > And I think dracut should prolly prefer the static busybox over the
> uclibc
> > compile busybox.
> dracut doesn't use busybox at all currently.
>
The statically linked busybox package is anyways linked against
> uClibc, and as you'd also
> want to bundle ie. plymouth and other stuff that busybox doesn't
> provide, it would be preferred
> to use binaries dynamically linked against uClibc to save space.
>
> It's anyways not really a topic worth much discussion before someone
> does the job of adding
> support for busybox to dracut though (which would be nice as we then
> could reduce initrd size
> from > 32MB all the way down to 1 MB)..
>
dracut just produced a ~7MB size initramfs for me...
but yes busybox removes the need for udev, modprobe and most of the libs
afaik

>
> And it's rather off-topic for this thread.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Per Øyvind
>