On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 06:53:38PM +0000, John Robinson wrote: > True, but afaik every distro uses an initrd/initramfs and bundles > tools making it easy to manage and customise them, so what's the > problem? Distro provided initramfs generators have a bad habit assuming you patch/build your kernel like the distro does. If you want to use a vanilla kernel with different things built in/built as modules/not built at all, then you can get nasty surprises, and debugging can be rather painful. My current view is if you use a distro kernel, then you should also use an initramfs (in fact you do not have a choice). But if you want to build your own kernel, then you should get rid of the initramfs. Gabor -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
