From: Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: Does OpenRC really need mount-ro
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 13:50:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C4EB30.50300@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160217173009.1c76d401@red.yakaraplc.local>
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On 02/17/2016 09:30 AM, James Le Cuirot wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:19:52 -0500 Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Is dracut still not widely used? I know that it was all the
>> fashion for a decade or two for every distro to build their own
>> initramfs, but I don't get why anybody wouldn't just make the
>> switch - it is far more capable and configurable.
>
> Does anyone know what most Gentoo users are doing these days? I
> don't recall the handbook mentioning initramfs at all back in 2002
> because it wasn't really needed back then. I did without for years
> until I finally put / on LVM. I used lvm2create_initrd for a while
> but that was still quite a manual process and I couldn't imagine
> going back to it now. I've switched to Dracut and it's great but I
> don't get the impression that Gentoo really endorses that option
> over the more laborious ones. Maybe it should?
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Initramfs
>
I went without an initrd until I encrypted my / and put LVM inside it.
I used genkernel's initrd functions for that with a
manually-configured kernel.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-17 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-16 18:05 [gentoo-dev] rfc: Does OpenRC really need mount-ro William Hubbs
2016-02-16 18:22 ` Rich Freeman
2016-02-16 18:41 ` William Hubbs
2016-02-17 2:20 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2016-02-17 13:46 ` Rich Freeman
2016-02-18 8:57 ` Duncan
2016-02-18 12:22 ` Rich Freeman
2016-02-19 5:07 ` Duncan
2016-02-25 23:46 ` Raymond Jennings
2016-02-17 14:24 ` Richard Yao
2016-02-17 17:19 ` Rich Freeman
2016-02-17 17:30 ` James Le Cuirot
2016-02-17 18:06 ` Ian Stakenvicius
2016-02-17 18:32 ` Rich Freeman
2016-02-18 3:11 ` Richard Yao
2016-02-18 9:02 ` James Le Cuirot
2016-02-18 11:39 ` Rich Freeman
2016-02-17 21:50 ` Daniel Campbell [this message]
2016-02-18 3:02 ` Richard Yao
2016-02-18 10:48 ` Rich Freeman
2016-02-17 14:05 ` [gentoo-dev] " Richard Yao
2016-02-16 19:31 ` Patrick Lauer
2016-02-16 20:18 ` Rich Freeman
2016-02-17 14:06 ` Richard Yao
2016-02-17 19:01 ` Andrew Savchenko
2016-02-17 19:26 ` Rich Freeman
2016-02-18 3:26 ` Richard Yao
2016-02-18 7:53 ` Andrew Savchenko
2016-02-16 20:03 ` Daniel Campbell
2016-02-17 8:24 ` Luca Barbato
2016-02-17 14:00 ` Richard Yao
2016-02-18 7:02 ` Robin H. Johnson
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