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On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 03:05:35PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Without Acks or buy-in from other maintainers this is not a change we
> can just do given that a few people already piped up and expressed
> reservations that this would be doable for them.
> 
> @Christoph, you marked this as deprecated years ago.
> What's your take on this?

I'd love to see it go obviously.  But IIRC we had various users show
up, which speaks against removing it.  Maybe the first step would be
a separate config option just for block-based initrd?