starting Fedora Server SIG

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Nov 13 00:31:20 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 17:41 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> No argument about the value - but it seems similar to the need for the 
>> md devices at boot time.  If you don't need it, why include it in the 
>> install?  A tool help modify initrd post-install would be nice to fix 
>> things up when the boot hardware or requirements change, though.
> 
> Now you've lost me.

When you install, something decides whether or not to include the md 
module in the installed initrd.  Shouldn't the same decision be made for 
  whatever handles encryption and any other services it will need at 
about the same time?  Hmmm, maybe that's a different choice than whether 
it needs to be available, though.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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