[ANNOUNCEMENT] dracut-0.3

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Thu Jul 2 13:05:39 UTC 2009


On 07/02/2009 02:23 PM, John5342 wrote:
> 2009/7/2 Harald Hoyer<harald at redhat.com>:
>> On 07/02/2009 01:25 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 13:14 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>>>> The idea is to pregenerate a generic initrd and package it in an rpm and
>>>> deliver
>>>> it together with the kernel. There should be no need to generate the
>>>> initrd on
>>>> an X0-1 itsself.
>>> Is it going to work like this in standard Fedora too?
>>> Or will dracut be invoked like mkinitrd is today, that is at RPM-install
>>> time on the target system?
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>> My personal target is to deliver the initrd image with the kernel. For
>> performance issues or special needs one can install dracut and generate his
>> own image, if new kernels are installed.
>>
>> We will see, if can work that way.
>>
>
> Can i just point out that i am probably not the only one to require
> omitting some modules and adding others to the initrd image. With the
> current setup i run mkinitrd once when i first install (using rescue
> disk) and then these altered options are remembered so it creates the
> correct initrd whenever the kernel is updated. If i understand
> correctly and the initrd images are pre-generated within an rpm then
> my mods will be overwritten on each update and i would presumably need
> to run dracut manually after each kernel update to replace the
> pregenerated initrd. That would be a major regression and surely
> cannot be allowed to happen.
> Please accept my apologies if i got it all wrong.
>

As I said, "For performance issues or special needs one can install dracut and 
generate his own image, if new kernels are installed." .. surely this will be 
done automatically, if you install dracut and there is /etc/dracut.conf where 
you can configure additional kernel modules and your needs.




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