starting Fedora Server SIG
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Nov 12 23:41:58 UTC 2008
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
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