On 07/07/2014 01:16 PM, Victor Lowther wrote:
As one of the original authors of dracut, I would love to see it being
used to build initramfs images for TripleO. dracut is flexible, works
across a wide variety of distros, and removes the need to have
special-purpose toolchains and packages for use by the initramfs.
Dracut rocks, and we can use it to get support for Shared nothing
diskless boot;
http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/03/shared-nothing-diskless-boot/
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Ben Nemec <openst...@nemebean.com
<mailto:openst...@nemebean.com>> wrote:
I've recently been looking into using dracut to build the
deploy-ramdisks that we use for TripleO. There are a few reasons for
this: 1) dracut is a fairly standard way to generate a ramdisk, so
users
are more likely to know how to debug problems with it. 2) If we build
with dracut, we get a lot of the udev/net/etc stuff that we're
currently
doing manually for free. 3) (aka the self-serving one ;-) RHEL 7
doesn't include busybox, so we can't currently build ramdisks on that
distribution using the existing ramdisk element.
For the RHEL issue, this could just be an alternate way to build
ramdisks, but given some of the other benefits I mentioned above I
wonder if it would make sense to look at completely replacing the
existing element. From my investigation thus far, I think dracut can
accommodate all of the functionality in the existing ramdisk element,
and it looks to be available on all of our supported distros.
So that's my pitch in favor of using dracut for ramdisks. Any
thoughts?
Thanks.
https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
-Ben
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