Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-03 Thread David C. Rankin
On 11/01/2019 05:06 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > Our dracut packager tried to get in touch with the dracut developer, > after a lack of success for quite some time it seems that the individual > in question was on... parental leave, IIRC? I'm not sure what the > current status is. No

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-03 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On 11/3/19 11:27 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > > > xz is much slower than gzip, and the kernel does not support zstd. > Right - facebook brought it up again a few months ago, thread went quiet and I incorrectly assumed it was actually mainlined - but you're right it isn't. https://lkml.org/l

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-03 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general
Em novembro 4, 2019 0:59 Genes Lists via arch-general escreveu: Yeh, that makes sense - plus its very easy to add to dracut.conf Yes. dracut supports /etc/dracut.d, so there's where they recommend to put settings. Been thinking about that - I've switched to building without -H and not c

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-03 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On 11/3/19 11:16 PM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: > > gene > Clearly image size and compression both likely impact boot time. An interesting comparison might be running systemd-analyze blame after booting with and with hostonly and with and without compression. Anyone have a comparison h

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-03 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On 11/3/19 10:59 PM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: > > Not sure what value a fallback image actualy provides at this point? > It takes more space and I don't see it adding much value. > Didn't think enough - the host only image might well be faster to boot (being smaller) - but I have n

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-03 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On 11/3/19 7:31 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > That would require having dracut depend on mdadm. I think this is something > to be done by the user. I plan a simple config/preset per kernel that > will be Yeh, that makes sense - plus its very easy to add to dracut.conf > called twice, once w

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-03 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general
Em novembro 3, 2019 21:05 Genes Lists via arch-general escreveu: Thank you ... I really like dracut - it works well. Only suggestion I'd make is adding "--mdadmconf" perhaps by default - though I can see it both ways for those who don't use RAID - if its easy to add that would also be totally fi

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-03 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On 11/3/19 7:05 PM, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote: > Only suggestion I'd make is adding "--mdadmconf" perhaps by default - To clarify, I mean in dracut.conf - so I should probably have said mdadmconf="yes" ... anyway, thanks again. gene

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-03 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On 11/3/19 4:02 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: > > I'm as of now writing hooks for dracut to be able to install the kernel, as > mkinitcpio does, and I'm considering have a preset config, like mkinicpio, > so it gives the user the ability to decide how dracut is ran. > > Other than that, given t

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-03 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general
Em novembro 3, 2019 12:45 Genes Lists via arch-general escreveu: On 10/31/19 2:30 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote: ... ... Also, as I've mentioned, dracut should receive soon, hooks similar to those mkinitcpio did, with a few differences of course. Since Giancarlo brought up d

Re: [arch-general] new packaging of the kernel/mkinitcpio/kmod

2019-11-03 Thread Genes Lists via arch-general
On 10/31/19 2:30 PM, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-general wrote: ... > ... Also, as I've mentioned, dracut should receive > soon, hooks similar to those mkinitcpio did, with a few differences of > course. Since Giancarlo brought up dracut in May this year, I've been using this successfully to bo