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On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:19:52 -0500 |
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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> Is dracut still not widely used? I know that it was all the fashion |
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> for a decade or two for every distro to build their own initramfs, but |
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> I don't get why anybody wouldn't just make the switch - it is far more |
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> capable and configurable. |
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Does anyone know what most Gentoo users are doing these days? I don't |
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recall the handbook mentioning initramfs at all back in 2002 because it |
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wasn't really needed back then. I did without for years until I finally |
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put / on LVM. I used lvm2create_initrd for a while but that was still |
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quite a manual process and I couldn't imagine going back to it now. |
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I've switched to Dracut and it's great but I don't get the impression |
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that Gentoo really endorses that option over the more laborious ones. |
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Maybe it should? |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Initramfs |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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