Comments on: Dracut status http://codemonkey.org.uk/2009/02/02/dracut-status/ Dave Jones' Linux & opensource stuff. Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:35:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeremy’s Thoughts » Handing over the dracut reigns http://codemonkey.org.uk/2009/02/02/dracut-status/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Jeremy’s Thoughts » Handing over the dracut reigns Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:05:30 +0000 http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/?p=133#comment-127 [...] may have noticed, I’ve mostly passed the dracut torch on to davej and he’s done a more current status report which has been picked up by lwn for this week’s kernel [...] [...] may have noticed, I’ve mostly passed the dracut torch on to davej and he’s done a more current status report which has been picked up by lwn for this week’s kernel [...]

]]> By: jbailey http://codemonkey.org.uk/2009/02/02/dracut-status/comment-page-1/#comment-126 jbailey Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:21:58 +0000 http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/?p=133#comment-126 I need to look into Dracut. I wrote the initramfs-tools that are currently used by Debian and Ubuntu, and at a quick glance, dracut appears to be a reimplementation of it. I'm curious what problems you're solving that aren't already solved by initramfs-tools? (I don't mean that as an attack - just that if it's solving the same problems, it may as well just get reused). One initial concern I have is at the use of bash rather than some smaller posix shell. The initramfs' on Ubuntu get quite large as it is loading all the modules needed to boot. =( I need to look into Dracut. I wrote the initramfs-tools that are currently used by Debian and Ubuntu, and at a quick glance, dracut appears to be a reimplementation of it. I’m curious what problems you’re solving that aren’t already solved by initramfs-tools? (I don’t mean that as an attack – just that if it’s solving the same problems, it may as well just get reused).

One initial concern I have is at the use of bash rather than some smaller posix shell. The initramfs’ on Ubuntu get quite large as it is loading all the modules needed to boot. =(

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