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On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Daniel Reidy <dubkat@gmail.com> wrote:
> people actually need an initramfs?
>
> my kernel has only what it needs, and nothing it doesn't.

+1

Only time I used initramfs was on a desktop and that was while testing
a quirky lvm/raid setup that wouldn't boot without mdadm doing some
assembly *before* the main root filesystem became available. That was
never production quality though and all my servers run either off a HW
RAID card or boot from a SAN.


-- 
Drew

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