Re: Linux mdadm superblock question.

[H. Peter Anvin]

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
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