Comment 2 for bug 197602

Marking as Confirmed. That's a good question. The system should be left bootable for as long as possible. What's the approximate time difference between creating it to /tmp and writing it over, versus creating-and-writing on-the-fly?

For Gutsy, 9.2 MB for initrd with a 35 MB/sec disk would be 0.26 seconds to copy over. Anybody measure update-initramfs with a stopwatch?

Of course, when you lose power, anything is possible. That is why I have an UPS on each of my computers.

To the reporter: Did the backup copies and/or older kernel not boot either? Granted you would have to login with a rescue shell and manually copy over. I'm running Linux Mint 4 XFCE and I've got backups of my original Gutsy kernel and initrd. With updates you would have multiple kernels and initrd images.