[Mageia-dev] ANN: Dracut now mounts /usr properly \o/

Fri Dec 16 01:41:21 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Olivier Blin at 15/12/11 23:36 did gyre and gimble:
+> Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> writes:
+> 
+>> Now, when I installed, dracut wasn't used as initrd, so if no one shouts
+>> too loudly I'll make it deprecate mkinitrd tomorrow and we can test
+>> installs where dracut generates the first initrd and see how it fairs.
+> 
+> Don't we want to keep mkinitrd available as a fallback for some time?
+
+Maybe but for the next while we should force dracut on everyone and test
+that it works well. It's the only way we're going to be able to support
+systemd when LVM is used due to systemd needing info from udev and thus
+needing udev to be started in the initrd (even tho' udev is ultimately
+shut down and restarted, the metadata from the LVM layers started before
+persists due to /run/udev being shared and thus systemd deals with disk
+mounting fine.
+
+So while we can theoretically keep mkinitrd, I've very much like to see
+if we can get away with just having to support one initramfs generator
+if we can possibly get away with it.
+
+Col
+
+
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