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Am 19.05.2014 15:39, schrieb Rich Freeman: |
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> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@×××××.at> wrote: |
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>> ... it seems to me that this adds something like an additional layer |
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>> around certain things and helps to make all that more bulletproof? |
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> Now that I know how to use dracut I'm basically using it everywhere, |
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> even for VMs that have a single ext4 partition (where it really is a |
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> bit overkill). For the most part it is plug-and-play, and once you |
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> start getting multiple disks involved it adds a lot of robustness. |
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> Dracut can fsck your disks if you want, it can reliably mount the |
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> right root even with fairly confusing layouts, and it actually |
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> respects whatever is in /etc/fstab. It can also be told to mount |
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> anything you want before pivoting via an additional fstab (with the |
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> usual syntax). |
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Yes, it looks like a small system to me that boots and works before "the |
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real system" boots up. |
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> Sure, in theory it is one more thing that can go wrong, but I look at |
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> it more like one thing that can help get things to go right when they |
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> would otherwise go wrong. |
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> I'd encourage anybody who hasn't used it to at least get an |
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> understanding of it. It can make your life easier. |
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So my impressions were right, thanks for agreeing and explaining. |
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> There was a Lennart article about using the initramfs to do shutdown |
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> which was good reading. The concept is that you can cleanly unmount |
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> everything this way, and it also handles FUSE much better. |
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Do you have an URL at hand for that? |
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Thanks, Stefan |
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