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On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 4:10 AM, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> The ones created by genkernel or dracut always need a few iterations before |
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> they work semi-reliably and are not flexible enough. |
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> I have 2 disks in my laptop. Both are encrypted using LUKS and the same |
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> passphrase. Neither genkernel nor dracut have the intelligence to ask me once |
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> and try the key on both, only asking for a 2nd key when the provided one |
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> doesn't work for both. |
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> I ended up writing my own, which has proven more reliable and stable. The |
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> reduced size also makes maintenance less of an issue. |
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Nothing wrong with this if you know what you're doing. Dracut is |
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designed to be one-size-fits-all with a lot of logic to figure out |
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what your system needs to boot. |
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It is also somewhat dependent on a correct fstab. Don't take that for |
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granted: the kernel doesn't look at fstab at all when mounting root, |
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and neither do most of the other tools, so if your root partition |
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isn't correctly defined in fstab you might never know it and dracut |
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will get confused. If nothing else once it does have it correctly |
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mounted it will read fstab and then mess it up when it re-mounts root |
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per "your" instructions. |
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If you just need to tweak dracut behavior you may be better off with a |
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dracut module. They're just shell scripts and pretty simple to write. |
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That lets you tweak something at some point during boot without having |
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to build the entire thing yourself. |
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And since it uses udev it is fairly robust against things like adding |
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a drive and now the kernel re-letters everything. |
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If you tweak it to use the same password for all drives I wouldn't be |
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surprised if upstream accepts the patch... |
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Rich |
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