On Tue, 3 Jan 2017, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
On 31 December 2016 at 09:48, Matthew Gabeler-Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
Snazzy would be to bake the system hostname into the initramfs (Ubuntu seems
to do this as part of the baseline initramfs-tools, but Debian not so much)
so that this problem largely went away.
Ouch. Imho hostname should be copied into initramfs. But I do not know
the history of where this change was done in Ubuntu and/or why not
done in Debian.
I am not sure if it is appropriate for mdadm package initramfs hooks
to copy /etc/hostname into initramfs. Maybe it should be done
somewhere more universal, e.g. initramfs-tools itself.
Agreed that it shouldn't be mdadm's responsibility to bake the hostname
into the initramfs.
And that doesn't cover systems with dynamic hostnames -- Those really
shouldn't be trying to use a DNS name for the homehost at all. There's
an argument for an enhancement to use the systemd/dbus machine guid
instead of hostnames here, though that comes with its own
complexities...
--
-Matt
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