Re: [gentoo-dev] usr merge

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Monday, April 11, 2016 01:10:15 AM Raymond Jennings wrote:
> Please don't do this.  I want my system left alone.

Please don't top-post, I want to have a logical flow of the text.


> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 11:41 PM, J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
> > On Sunday, April 10, 2016 10:04:42 AM James Le Cuirot wrote:
> > > On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 02:09:35 +0200
> > > 
> > > "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
> > > > I actually write my own initramfs because neither dracut not
> > > > genkernel end up with a convenient boot system.
> > > > 
> > > > I have 2 disks, both encrypted.
> > > > I prefer only to enter the decryption password once. Both Dracut and
> > > > Genkernel insist on asking for the password/key for every single disk.
> > > 
> > > Dracut on RHEL actually handles this out of the box. Might be worth
> > > finding out how.
> > 
> > Might have even been fixed in a more recent version of Dracut.
> > I just have passed the point where I am interested in it enough to try it.
> > The
> > initramfs I use gets embedded into the kernel and doesn't need any kernel
> > parameters to work.
> > 
> > It does what it needs to do with minimal work. The simplicity should also
> > make
> > it faster than the scripts generated by either Dracut or genkernel. (As
> > they
> > need to parse the kernel cmdline and try to figure out static details on
> > the
> > fly)
> > 
> > --
> > Joost

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