[arch-projects] [mkinitcpio PATCH 1/3] /run/initramfs: copy the whole ramfs

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 11/25/2011 11:46 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:34:17PM -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>> On 11/17/2011 01:08 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>>> This is useful for the future shutdown hook, and might make debugging easier,
>>> as well as potentially opening up for other usecases (that I cannot yet imagine ;-) ).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen<teg at jklm.no>
>>> ---
>>>   init         |    2 +-
>>>   install/base |    1 +
>>>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/init b/init
>>> index 7cc2d47..3c6fb81 100644
>>> --- a/init
>>> +++ b/init
>>> @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ else
>>>     mknod /dev/mem c 1 1
>>>   fi
>>>   mount -t tmpfs run /run -o nosuid,nodev,mode=755,size=10M
>>> -mkdir /run/initramfs
>>> +cp -ax / /run/initramfs
>>>
>>>   # parse the kernel command line
>>>   parse_cmdline
>>> diff --git a/install/base b/install/base
>>> index 0726fa2..84e7f02 100644
>>> --- a/install/base
>>> +++ b/install/base
>>> @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ build() {
>>>       add_binary /sbin/blkid
>>>       add_binary /bin/mount
>>>       add_binary /sbin/switch_root
>>> +    add_binary /bin/cp
>>>
>>>       add_symlink "/etc/mtab" "/proc/self/mounts"
>>>
>> I guess, we should start thinking incrementing size of /run, 10M is becoming small, for example I am using 56% due archiso_shutdown hook (it takes 5.3M).
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
>> \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1
>>
> Given that /run is owned by root, I don't see why we need to worry about
> hard capping the size.
>
> d
Sure I never understand why limiting this, also for /dev. Initial patch 
[#1], size limit added [#2]

[#1] 
http://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/commit/?id=e5248347fd0c00e9ea72ad3b3b3434573f08d96d
[#2] 
http://projects.archlinux.org/initscripts.git/commit/?id=757f653b8c9ba9d671dd95bd998bc3d487ee20d1


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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
\cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1