17 Nov
2011
17 Nov
'11
1:23 p.m.
Am 17.11.2011 18:07, schrieb Tom Gundersen:
I see two potential issues: boot speed and memory use. Moving stuff around in memory should be pretty much instantaneous, and the memory (a couple of MB) will be swapped out quick enough so it shouldn't make a difference.
I'd be happy to write a new patch where this is optional, but I don't think we should optimize for stuff unless we know it is a measurable problem.
Depending on what's in there, it could be big. For example, I once wrote a hook that extracted a tarfile that was stored inside initramfs (that tarfile was the whole root filesystem IIRC). Other than that, people WILL complain.