Messages in this thread | | | From | Martin Steigerwald <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1 | Date | Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:28:49 +0200 |
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Am Mittwoch, 29. April 2015, 17:22:08 schrieb Harald Hoyer: > On 29.04.2015 17:17, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > > On 2015-04-29 11:07, Harald Hoyer wrote: > >> Most of the stuff does not work without udev and something like > >> systemd.> > > That's funny, apparently the initramfs images I've been using for > > multiple months now on server systems at work which don't have > > systemd, udev, or dbus, and do LVM/RAID assembly, network > > configuration, crypto devices, multipath, many different filesystems, > > and a number of other oddball configurations due to the insanity that > > is the software I have to deal with from our company, don't work. I > > wonder how my systems are booting successfully 100% of the time then? > Then you should probably open source your initramfs, so we can all > benefit from it and use it for all distributions.
Do you really think that the tooling will make that much of a difference?
I think there will always be cases where a initramfs will not work until adapted to it. And then its nice, to be able to do things like this:
merkaba:~> cat /etc/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-top/btrfs #!/bin/sh
PREREQ="lvm" prereqs() { echo $PREREQ }
case $1 in prereqs) prereqs exit 0; esac
. /scripts/functions
log_begin_msg "Initializing BTRFS RAID-1."
modprobe btrfs vgchange -ay btrfs device scan
log_end_msg
How would I add support for some configuration that a systemd or purely dracut + udev based initramfs does not support *yet*, on my own?
Yes, one can argue, why doesn´t Debian support it already, but heck, I can do it myself and report a bug about it, without having to fire up a C compiler in order to fix things. I may be able to do this myself, but at a much higher cost in time.
Above thing works so long already that I even often forgot about it.
That said, if I still get a chance to execute a script at some time, a dracut based initramfs may just be totally fine with it, but I want this possibility and a shell to fix things up myself it they go wrong. And while I do not get the need for having systemd in the initramfs at all, I might be fine with it, if I can fix things up myself in case of problems.
Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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