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On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Matthew Summers |
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<quantumsummers@g.o> wrote: |
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> In point of fact all modern Linux kernels have an initramfs built in |
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> now, that when empty is effectively bypassed, so there is no wheel |
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> reinvention. To quote the docs [1] |
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Yes, but that embedded initramfs doesn't actually do much of anything |
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right now. It may exist from an architecture standpoint, but it |
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doesn't mean that there isn't a lot of work to be done which would be |
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redundant with work already done elsewhere. |
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I can see where you might want a simpler solution than dracut as an |
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alternative for more embedded setups/etc. It probably would be |
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cleaner to just create a new solution than modify dracut to get rid of |
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udev/etc. |
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In any case, as long as a solution exists for md+lvm+luks+/usr before |
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we start breaking more stuff than is already broken, then we should be |
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fine. Having more than one optional solution is fine. While I don't |
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think that gentoo needs to be another Ubuntu, having reasonable |
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out-of-the-box support for one of the major desktop environments |
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running on md+lvm+luks seems pretty useful. |
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Rich |