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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/07/2014 01:16 PM, Victor Lowther
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<div dir="ltr">As one of the original authors of dracut, I would
love to see it being used to build initramfs images for TripleO.
dracut is flexible, works across a wide variety of distros, and
removes the need to have special-purpose toolchains and packages
for use by the initramfs.</div>
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Dracut rocks, and we can use it to get support for Shared nothing
diskless boot;<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/03/shared-nothing-diskless-boot/">http://adam.younglogic.com/2012/03/shared-nothing-diskless-boot/</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Ben
Nemec <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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recently been looking into using dracut to build the<br>
deploy-ramdisks that we use for TripleO. There are a few
reasons for<br>
this: 1) dracut is a fairly standard way to generate a
ramdisk, so users<br>
are more likely to know how to debug problems with it. 2)
If we build<br>
with dracut, we get a lot of the udev/net/etc stuff that
we're currently<br>
doing manually for free. 3) (aka the self-serving one ;-)
RHEL 7<br>
doesn't include busybox, so we can't currently build
ramdisks on that<br>
distribution using the existing ramdisk element.<br>
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For the RHEL issue, this could just be an alternate way to
build<br>
ramdisks, but given some of the other benefits I mentioned
above I<br>
wonder if it would make sense to look at completely
replacing the<br>
existing element. From my investigation thus far, I think
dracut can<br>
accommodate all of the functionality in the existing ramdisk
element,<br>
and it looks to be available on all of our supported
distros.<br>
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So that's my pitch in favor of using dracut for ramdisks.
Any thoughts?<br>
Thanks.<br>
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-Ben<br>
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