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

Fri Dec 16 13:54:41 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 16/12/11 09:29 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 16 December 2011 01:41, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>>> 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.
+> 
+> Feel free to alter meta-task's prefer.vendor.list
+
+That will only affect new installs right? I want to make sure that I
+force it on everyone hence why I was thinking of obsoleting, but perhaps
+I should just put it in as a require somewhere (e.g. to systemd) such
+that everyone gets it but can still technically use mkinitrd should they
+have a real need (i.e. dracut is really broken!)
+
+Col
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