-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 02/17/2016 09:30 AM, 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 > 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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