Re: distri: 20x faster initramfs (initrd) from scratch

On Tue, 2020-01-21 at 18:07 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I just published a blog post about a custom proof-of-concept
> initramfs
> generator (minitrd):
> 
> https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2020-01-21-initramfs-from-scratch-golang/
> 
> This demonstrates that there is still a whole bunch of optimization
> potential in existing initramfs generators such as dracut :)

Cool, but I don't think it has big chances to be adopted in larger
mainstream distros unless you add some extension/plugin functionality,
like dracut's modules.d. Such plugins should be easy to write and
maintain.

Martin