On 17:15 Sat 09 Apr, James Le Cuirot wrote: > On Sat, 9 Apr 2016 12:09:38 -0400 > waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > > I never really got the mentality that using an initramfs is a > > > burden. > > > > One more piece of software that can go wrong. You have to > > maintain+configure it; e.g. sync software and library versions with > > what's on the rest of the system. > > Errm, have you ever actually used dracut? > > dracut --kver 4.5 > > Wow, that was hard! It requires zero configuration and that's true even > if you've got LVM on top of LUKS on top of RAID or something equally > complex. If you're already running that kernel version, you don't even > need to specify it.
In 2014 I switched from dracut to genkernel because after *every* dracut's update I was writing to it's devs about a new shiny bug. Like infinite loops in the pidof() implementation.
