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On 17:15 Sat 09 Apr, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:09:38 -0400 |
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> waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> > > I never really got the mentality that using an initramfs is a |
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> > > burden. |
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> > |
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> > One more piece of software that can go wrong. You have to |
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> > maintain+configure it; e.g. sync software and library versions with |
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> > what's on the rest of the system. |
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> Errm, have you ever actually used dracut? |
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> dracut --kver 4.5 |
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> Wow, that was hard! It requires zero configuration and that's true even |
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> if you've got LVM on top of LUKS on top of RAID or something equally |
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> complex. If you're already running that kernel version, you don't even |
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> need to specify it. |
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In 2014 I switched from dracut to genkernel because after *every* |
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dracut's update I was writing to it's devs about a new shiny bug. Like |
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infinite loops in the pidof() implementation. |
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