We got to the current place thusly: - The initial ramdisk code in Nova-baremetal needed a home other than a wikipage. - And then there was a need/desire to build ramdisks from a given distro != current host OS. - Various bits of minor polish to make it more or less in-line with the emerging tooling in DIB.
I've no attachment at all to the ramdisk implementation though - there's nothing to say its right or wrong, and if dracut is better, cool. The things I think are important are: - ability to build for non-host arch and distro. - ability to build working Ironic-deploy ramdisks today, and Ironic-IPA ramdisks in future -Rob On 4 July 2014 15:12, Ben Nemec <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 > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
