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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 07:11:51 -0500
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: "Zvi Har'El" <rl@math.technion.ac.il>
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        "Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>
Subject: Re: ext3 vs resiserfs vs xfs
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0111081407130.28492-100000@leeor.math.technion.ac.il>; from rl@math.technion.ac.il on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:10:58PM +0200
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:10:58PM +0200, Zvi Har'El wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> >
> > The basic idea is "everything which can be a module will be a module",
> > even scsi is a module. And if you use grub, it's 100% transparent as the
> > initrd
> > will be automatically added to the grub config when you install the RH
> > kernel rpm;
> > even if you use lilo the initrd is supposed to be made for you
> 
> Is there no overhead (except in boot time) in using initrd?

The initrd memory is freed during the initial boot so there's no overhead.

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