starting Fedora Server SIG

[Les Mikesell]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 17:18 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> A normal reboot is needed at least as often as you push new kernels (we 
>> are still talking about fedora, aren't we?) - not something that should 
>> require a cross country trip.  And there's always the rare case where 
>> your UPS or power transfer switch fails and all of a sudden you have to 
>> bring back hundreds of machines as fast as you can.
> 
> A reboot for new kernels is a planned event right?
> 
> And we're not necessarily talking about 100s of machines needing the
> encryption, only a few that really really need it.  Basically don't
> write off encryption as a local only technology.

No argument about the value - but it seems similar to the need for the 
md devices at boot time.  If you don't need it, why include it in the 
install?  A tool help modify initrd post-install would be nice to fix 
things up when the boot hardware or requirements change, though.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmailc.om