Re: Initrd unzipped ?

[erich]

OKUJI Yoshinori <address@hidden> wrote:

> > It seems that when one uses an initrd with Linux, the initrd is unzipped.
> > If I'm right, since Linux is able to unzip the initrd too, and since it
> > first moves the initrd to a ramdisk, this is not practical (one waste
> > memory).
> 
> I'm not sure. The code is derived from Erich's version of GRUB "as
> is", so there might be a reason for that (e.g. ancient Linux didn't
> support gzip-loading? Erich?)
> 
> Anyway, at least 2.0.38 supports gzip-loading, so I think it would be
> better to disable the automatic decompression behavior in GRUB. If
> nobody objects to that, I'll do that.

Hmm...  I never really looked to closely at the fact that it would
tend to decompress your initrd image automatically.  It always seemed
to just work.  Clearly I didn't inspect how it was working too closely.

BTW, does this cause a problem of some kind?  Or is this just a case
of violation of expectations?

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    Erich Stefan Boleyn     <address@hidden>     http://www.uruk.org/
"Reality is truly stranger than fiction; Probably why fiction is so popular"