[Grml-devel] About the new grml direction

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 01:22:21AM +0100, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> * Marc Haber <mh+grml-devel at zugschlus.de> [120101 23:45]:
> > On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 11:10:40PM +0100, Ulrich Dangel wrote:
> > > * Marc Haber wrote [01.01.12 22:33]:
> > > > Loading an 350 MB image to RAM takes considerably more time than an
> > > > 130 MB image. 
> > > 
> > > You can load the image into ram after you started it via the command
> > > grml2ram. This means you can copy it to ram while already working.
> > 
> > Nice idea. How about an option to copy to ram in the background?
> > 
> > What do I do on old systems that only have 512 MB RAM?
> 
> Use an old release.

With old security-bugs? I don't like that idea at all.

> > > > Additionally, on my typically 1 GB large boot, I was
> > > > able to place to grml-small images in addition to the normal /bot
> > > > contents. I was already forced to resize /boot on my notebook because
> > > > of grmls size increase.
> > >  
> > > As i said before you can place the grml iso images on a dedicated LVM lv
> > > or on raid and use that for mounting the isos. Stacked setups will work
> > > also (LVM on raid)
> > 
> > That doesn't help too much for systems that are already installed.
> 
> 1GB is enough for kernels, initrds and Grml.

Are you aware how big kernel debug infos are?

> Also, nothing forces you to put Grml into /boot.

Up to grml 2011.05, grml forced me to do that. I haven't yet verified
whether grml can find its iso on an LV on GPT. If so, that would be a
big step forward.

> Generally speaking, having /boot seperate from / is one of those
> legacy errors that need to die.

I still frequently have that for a number of reasons, that are
unlikely to change.

Greetings
Marc

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