On Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 at 04:04, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
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> If you don't object to having an initramfs, I don't see the
> disadvantage of having everything in /usr/bin and having the other
> stuff just be links.
>

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I DO.
What is this obsession everybody has for complicating setups and increasing brittleness. There is only *two* good reasons for having an initramfs.

1) To get the root filesystem mounted - because you have some exotic root filesystem which is not supported by the kernel.

2) Because the initramfs *is* the root filesystem.

The bad reason for having an initramfs is because the Distro forces it upon you filling it with loads of unnecessary junk that can break\conflict hardware and stall the bootstrap.

If Red Hat had really been concerned with 'boot times' they would have done away with it.