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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 18:42:46
Message-Id: 57094D1D.30801@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge by James Le Cuirot
1 James Le Cuirot wrote:
2 > On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:09:38 -0400
3 > waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote:
4 >
5 >>> I never really got the mentality that using an initramfs is a
6 >>> burden.
7 >> One more piece of software that can go wrong. You have to
8 >> maintain+configure it; e.g. sync software and library versions with
9 >> what's on the rest of the system.
10 > Errm, have you ever actually used dracut?
11 >
12 > dracut --kver 4.5
13 >
14 > Wow, that was hard! It requires zero configuration and that's true even
15 > if you've got LVM on top of LUKS on top of RAID or something equally
16 > complex. If you're already running that kernel version, you don't even
17 > need to specify it.
18 >
19
20
21 FYI. I've had those to fail too. As Walt said, just one more thing to
22 fail.
23
24 Dale
25
26 :-) :-)

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