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I use the huge kernel on a good chunk of my computers, however, on my desktop, because I use UUIDs in my lilo.conf and fstab (I changed drives frequently on it since it also acts as a media server), I have to use an initrd, so I switched to the generic kernel.
Personally, I don't go through the minor hassle of using the generic kernel for little to no perceived benefit unless it's required (like using UUIDs in your lilo or if you were to encrypt or use lvm).
I did some testing here. For me, the huge kernel boots about 3 to 4 seconds (not significantly) faster than the generic kernel. Considering that, I decided not to get into the hassle of initrd construction after kernel upgrades
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Franz
fsauer --
I noticed the same thing on my Skylake I7 on the 4.4.x Kernels and considering the recent churn in Kernel releases, I rarely bother with GENERIC and an initrd anymore ... once in a while to check that GENERIC + initrd still works but I usually run HUGE
I have to run an initrd because I like to use LVM, but I make a point of building ext4 into my kernels so that I don't have to worry about modules in the initrd.
Anyway,
Gentlemen! Start your compilers....
v4.9.9 and v.4.4.48 are out.
Though 4.10.0 isn't far off by the look of things...
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