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On 17/02/16 12:30 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:19:52 -0500 Rich Freeman |
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> <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Is dracut still not widely used? I know that it was all the |
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>> fashion for a decade or two for every distro to build their own |
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>> initramfs, but I don't get why anybody wouldn't just make the |
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>> switch - it is far more capable and configurable. |
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> Does anyone know what most Gentoo users are doing these days? I |
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> don't recall the handbook mentioning initramfs at all back in |
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> 2002 because it wasn't really needed back then. I did without for |
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> years until I finally put / on LVM. I used lvm2create_initrd for |
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> a while but that was still quite a manual process and I couldn't |
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> imagine going back to it now. I've switched to Dracut and it's |
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> great but I don't get the impression that Gentoo really endorses |
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> that option over the more laborious ones. Maybe it should? |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Initramfs |
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Genkernel's initramfs generation was what we endorsed for the most |
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part, until dracut came around. it's hard to say what "most" are |
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doing but i expect dracut and genkernel based initramfs's make up |
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the vast majority in use by gentoo users, with a small minority |
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rolling their own through other means. |
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