initrd weirdness

[Net Llama!]

I'm trying to create a custom SuSE boot/install CD.  I extracted the
initrd that comes with the SusE-10 (x86_64) and made a few minor changes
to autoyast.xml (an xml file), however when I put the initrd back together
again with cpio and gzip it, the size of it is almost 3 times larger than
the original, and I can't figure out why.  My changes were just some plain
text tweaks, certainly nothing that would increase the size more than a
few bytes, much less many MB.

The command that i'm using to create the initrd is as follows:
find . -depth -print | cpio -ov > initrd

then I'm just running gzip on it.  And before someone suggests, i do not
have original initrd stuck in the new one.  Anyone have any ideas, or see
something i could be doing wrong?  thanks.

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