Re: [gentoo-user] My first initramfs

[Tanstaafl]

On 2013-11-12 4:55 PM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
>> Depending on your system, you might want to add one or more of the
>> following options:
>> Option     Description
>> --disklabel     Add support for LABEL= settings in your /etc/fstab
>> --dmraid     Add support for fake hardware RAID
>> --firmware     Add in firmware code found on the system
>> --gpg     Add in GnuPG support
>> --iscsi     Add support for iSCSI
>> --luks     Add support for luks encryption containers
>> --lvm     Add support for LVM
>> --mdadm     Add support for software RAID
>> --multipath     Add support for multiple I/O access towards a SAN
>> --zfs     Add support for ZFS
>
> So, are these *all* of the potential options? If so, then I can probably
> safely say that all I need is lvm...

Never got a response to this...

Maybe I can ask another way...

Is this a complete list of the items that may break BOOTING? I 
understand now that you can add pretty much any drivers that you want, 
but on my server (that has the separate /usr), modules are disabled and 
so I have every driver and filesystem built into the kernel.

Going just by the above list of items, the only thing I use is lvm, so 
I'm guessing (I *hate* guessing) that this is the only thing I need in 
my initramfs.

Another question - is there any reason I couldn't just enable everything 
just in case? Or could that cause other problems?

On 2013-11-12 5:54 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
 > There is a very capable tool for examining your system and deciding
 > what is needed... you.

Yes, but again, I have never had to worry about this - EVER - in the 
past. The question simply never came up.

Now, I am being FORCED to worry about it... and I want to understand it 
as much as possible.