On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:50:09PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Monday, February 02 2009, Dave Jones said:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:37:08AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > Things that still need doing include, but are not limited to..
> > >
> >
> > A few more things..
> >
> > The current Fedora mkinitrd generates initrds in the ~3MB range.
> > A dracut generated image is ~17MB.
>
> 17? I'm seeing along the lines of 7 on my box
you're right. I was looking at an ungzipped image.
> > * selinux policy loading.
> > I don't think there's any real reason this has to be in the initrd.
> > Though it means that either upstart or whatever init you use has to
> > do it, or your /sbin/init needs to become
>
> Right. /sbin/init had it with sysvinit, but Scott was against adding it
> in upstart. Feel free to restart that discussion
with the two line init, upstart doesn't need to change
(other than the executable changing name).
> > Finally, the udev rules currently in dracut are kind of hacky.
> > It'd be good to just have a set of rules provided by the
> > system udev that we can drop in there.
>
> Yep. Kay and I had a very brief discussion about it before the
> holidays. And, eg, the dm/lvm rules that are there are almost entirely
> there because those tools don't ship sane rules themselves. If they
> did, we could just suck them in.
*nod* The hack we have now isn't pretty, but works at least.
> I do think that there needs to be /lib/udev/initrules.d or similar to
> say "these rules matter for booting" as opposed to the full set of rules
> in /lib/udev or the hard-coded list of rules files currently present
I'm curious if any other distros have already solved this and are
shipping rules that aren't upstream yet?
Dave
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