generic vs. host-only

generic vs. host-only

[Harald Hoyer]

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.

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Re: generic vs. host-only

[Harald Hoyer]

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
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