Am 19.05.2014 15:39, schrieb Rich Freeman: > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:04 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: >> ... it seems to me that this adds something like an additional layer >> around certain things and helps to make all that more bulletproof? >> > > Now that I know how to use dracut I'm basically using it everywhere, > even for VMs that have a single ext4 partition (where it really is a > bit overkill). For the most part it is plug-and-play, and once you > start getting multiple disks involved it adds a lot of robustness. > Dracut can fsck your disks if you want, it can reliably mount the > right root even with fairly confusing layouts, and it actually > respects whatever is in /etc/fstab. It can also be told to mount > anything you want before pivoting via an additional fstab (with the > usual syntax).
Yes, it looks like a small system to me that boots and works before "the real system" boots up. > Sure, in theory it is one more thing that can go wrong, but I look at > it more like one thing that can help get things to go right when they > would otherwise go wrong. > > I'd encourage anybody who hasn't used it to at least get an > understanding of it. It can make your life easier. So my impressions were right, thanks for agreeing and explaining. > There was a Lennart article about using the initramfs to do shutdown > which was good reading. The concept is that you can cleanly unmount > everything this way, and it also handles FUSE much better. Do you have an URL at hand for that? Thanks, Stefan
