-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 17/02/16 12:30 PM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:19:52 -0500 Rich Freeman > <ri...@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 >
Genkernel's initramfs generation was what we endorsed for the most part, until dracut came around. it's hard to say what "most" are doing but i expect dracut and genkernel based initramfs's make up the vast majority in use by gentoo users, with a small minority rolling their own through other means. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlbEtr0ACgkQAJxUfCtlWe3/xwD+P4OlCY0RuTdGdPWOGRd8ePLi EvZCZuyp2oxPdYt6xdAA/2CN/Nbgj4bVFa02KeVpuoNOHMErPU4meZfzUjNbGmTH =iUu6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
