On Sep 16, 2011 4:03 PM, "Joost Roeleveld" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thursday, September 15, 2011 05:38:41 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > [--major snippage--] > > I see it the other way around: you ensure that your initramfs is in > > sync with your system. In other words: the initramfs contains a subset > > of your normal installation. That is why it makes redundant /lib, > > /sbin and /bin. > > The reason I ditched lilo when grub came out was because I always would forget > to run the lilo-command. (Another was that lilo wouldn't work on a new > machine, but that's not important) > The same will be true for dracut. And probably not just for me. > > The on-disk-format may stay the same and the tools (am thinking LVM here) > should always be able to find my filesystems. But, what if the initramfs does > the fsck with older tools? > > Currently, the fsck runs before actually mounting the filesystems. If the > filesystems end up being pre-mounted, when will fsck run and which version? >
Speaking of fsck, didn't someone lamented the fact that fsck can no longer be statically linked, thus making initr* 'blew up' in size? When more and more utilities go the non-statically-linked way... congratulations! You now have an initr* that's practically a cpio-ized version of / Rgds,
