> helps a lot on HDD by virtue of having far less disk traffic
Still doesn't matter because we're talking about init ramdisk here. It's a sequential file loaded into RAM before the kernel. Whether it's 5MB or 20MB would't matter much even on a hard drive. After that it's all in RAM anyway.
Still doesn't matter because we're talking about init ramdisk here. It's a sequential file loaded into RAM before the kernel. Whether it's 5MB or 20MB would't matter much even on a hard drive. After that it's all in RAM anyway.