Subject: Re: Mail Server Surgery
From: Andy Firman (andy@firman.us)
Date: Sun Feb 01 2004 - 05:54:22 AKST
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:22:19PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 18:32, Jim Wadell wrote:
> snip
> > If you are running any distribution that uses an initrd boot structure,
> > you might want to take a look at the initrd file by uncompressing and
> > mounting a COPY. It is instructive!
> >
> > Jim
>
> I know that the pre-compiled kernels that ship with Debian use
> initrd=/initrd.img. this is, ihmo, only to to make a painless install on
> the broadest venue of hardware. In the world of 'this is my box & I
> know what my chipsets are' I think using initrd adds a layer of
> complexity/failure that is not helpful to a stable system.. Initrd is
> usefull for installs, I suggest compiling ( a kernal) for the hardware
> on your system, without initrd.
I agree with this. Especially if you want to do full root on raid
which I have just done for a few systems.
In my opinion....it is best to compile the raid stuff directly into the kernel
(and any other features) and get rid of initrd.
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