Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs only, without dracut

[Dale]

Rich Freeman wrote:
> Now that I know how to use dracut I'm basically using it everywhere,
> even for VMs that have a single ext4 partition (where it really is a
> bit overkill).  For the most part it is plug-and-play, and once you
> start getting multiple disks involved it adds a lot of robustness.
> Dracut can fsck your disks if you want, it can reliably mount the
> right root even with fairly confusing layouts, and it actually
> respects whatever is in /etc/fstab.  It can also be told to mount
> anything you want before pivoting via an additional fstab (with the
> usual syntax).
>
> Sure, in theory it is one more thing that can go wrong, but I look at
> it more like one thing that can help get things to go right when they
> would otherwise go wrong.
>
> I'd encourage anybody who hasn't used it to at least get an
> understanding of it.  It can make your life easier.
>
> There was a Lennart article about using the initramfs to do shutdown
> which was good reading.  The concept is that you can cleanly unmount
> everything this way, and it also handles FUSE much better.
>
> Rich
>
>


I might add, I used dracut for a while.  A while back when I went to
boot back up, shutdown because my power went out, the init thingy
failed.  I had zero clue on how to fix it so I edited grub to ignore the
init part and booted up the old way.  Once booted, I kicked out the init
thingy and haven't built one since.  I posted this a good while back,
init thingy fails, it's gone.  You are right, it is one more thing that
can go wrong.  It certainly hasn't fixed anything yet but it sure did
break and keep me from booting with it.  ;-) 

Dale

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