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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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> 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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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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