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On 02/17/2016 09:30 AM, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:19:52 -0500 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> |
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> 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 2002 |
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> because it wasn't really needed back then. I did without for years |
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> until I finally put / on LVM. I used lvm2create_initrd for a while |
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> but that was still quite a manual process and I couldn't imagine |
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> going back to it now. I've switched to Dracut and it's great but I |
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> don't get the impression that Gentoo really endorses that option |
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> over the more laborious ones. Maybe it should? |
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> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Initramfs |
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I went without an initrd until I encrypted my / and put LVM inside it. |
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I used genkernel's initrd functions for that with a |
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manually-configured kernel. |
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