From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: generic vs. host-only Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:14:21 +0100 Message-ID: <49B2732D.4040000@redhat.com> References: <49B27059.7010303@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49B27059.7010303-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Harald Hoyer wrote: > Seewer Philippe proposed dracutmodules="hostonly" and to change > "$mod/check". > > all: > install everything and fail, if we can't > > auto: > install everything we can and skip those we cannot > > host-only: > install everything we can but only what is needed for the local host > > Also for the host-only case, we shouldn't check for e.g. dm_mod in > /proc/modules, because it can be compiled in. We could use blkid. > > I know that dracut was started to eliminate the "host-only" strategy, > but as it > is a configurable option, we might include it nevertheless for the sake > of boot > speed and initrd size, if wanted by a poweruser, who knows what he does. > ok, implemented "hostonly" in the merge tree of git://git.surfsite.org/pub/git/dracut.git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html