Oops, I somehow missed this comment... On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:23:36 +0200, Nicolas Schier wrote: ... > Thanks! Testing with a massively oversized initramfs (600MB) was fun: > from 2:44 down to 38s. Thanks for the benchmarking :) > Questions that pop up in my mind: > Now, how can we make other benefit from this? Might it make sense to > introduce a kconfig variable for initramfs alignment -- even though this > is just a build-time optimisation of few seconds? A kconfig option with non-aligned as default isn't a bad idea, but at this stage I don't think it's worth adding. Mostly because reflinks are very FS / arch / environment specific and the extra fragmentation may have unintended consequences. Thanks, David
