On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:52 PM Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 01/29/2019 12:33 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > However, as soon as you throw so much as a second hard drive in a system > > that becomes unreliable. > > Mounting the root based on UUID (or labels) is *WONDERFUL*. It makes > the system MUCH MORE resilient. Even if a device somehow gets inserted > before your root device in the /dev/sd* order.
Interesting. I didn't realize that linux supported PARTUUID natively. I'll agree that addresses many more use cases. I was under the impression that it required an initramfs - maybe that is a recent change... > > > I'm not saying you can't use linux without an initramfs. I'm just > > questioning why most normal people would want to. I bet that 98% of > > people who use Linux run an initramfs, and there is a reason for that... > > I don't doubt your numbers. > > But I do question the viability of them. How many people that are > running Linux even know that they have an option? Most of them probably don't even realize they're running Linux. :) People design systems with an initramfs because it is more robust and covers more use cases, including the use cases that don't require an initramfs. It also allows a fully modular kernel, which means less RAM use/etc on distros that use one-size-fits-all kernels (which is basically all of them but Gentoo). -- Rich
