Re: [IPCop-devel] Including most kernel modules into the initramfs

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 04:43:48PM +0100, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> Selon John Edwards <jo...@co...>:
> 
> It look your mail system is sending more than you want ;-)

Not mine. The guilty party has been condemned to attend children's
swimming lessons for the rest of the weekend.
;)

On a related note, this week I've had some ipcop-devel emails take up
to 2 days to be delivered. They seem to get held up somewhere in
"netdirect.ca" after leaving sourceforge.net. 

The delayed email was from Gilles, and they all seem to have been
routed through netdirect after sourceforge and have an extra header
of:
  "X-Envelope-To: <jo...@ne...>" 

Other ipcop-devel email doesn't have this header, or go through
netdirect.

I have never been jo...@ne..., but that is the email address of
John Van Ostrand who runs Net Direct in Canada. Maybe my email is
getting caught in an old email filter somewhere.

Could other people check the headers of their sourceforge email,
especially anyone with a "john@" email address.

If all else fails I could try email jo...@ne..., if it's
still a valid email address.


> Concerning the related subject, I think to have answered that
> I was ok the way you want to include many modules in the initrd.
> 
> I have given a possible solution to spare some space on disk
> by compressing the modules (like it is done on 1.4).
> If you google 'ko.gz', there is some hits, notabily Mandriva and
> some Suse.

Yeah, I remember using Mandrake several years with compressed modules.
I think it was a pain adding extra drivers, but then Mandrake did some
strange things and the whole system was buggy, so I didn't use it for
long.


> This spare 10 MB for one of our full tree.
> 
> We have to check how mkinitramfs behave with compressed modules.
> And we may need to include rebuilding initramfs each time a module include is
> updated.

According to the module-init-tools docs compression support is enabled
with "--enable-zlib", which is already in the LFS script. So IPCop
should be able to support it now.

Personnally I would wait a while for other things to be fixed and then
enable it to reduce space. Saving 10MB out of about 100MB is quite
useful, even more so if there is more than one kernel installed.


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