Hi Olivier, I am not denying any of what you have said below. Dracut may be a great tool. But unfortunately, it does not have the uptake in Debian, that initramfs-tools has. Just look at the popcon stats.
multipath-tools needs tight integration with the plumbing layer to ensure you have a stackable storage. For Debian, the work so far has been done integrating it with initramfs-tools. I am not opposed to adding dracut as an option. It is just that I have never worked on it. Nor have any users/developers ever reported about its integration here. If dracut can serve as a drop-in replacement, I don't have any problem adding it as an OR dependency in `sg3-utils-udev` package. On Fri, 2018-11-30 at 16:13 +0000, LAHAYE Olivier wrote: > Dracut is the only tool to create initramfs on many distros and it > works fine with multipath so far. Dracut is to initramfs-tools what > systemd is to basic initscripts. > Dracut is modular and event driven while initramfs-tools is > monolithic and linear static. > > If you look at /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d you'll notice that a module > already exists for multipathd. (/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90multipath > and /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90multipath-hostonly) > > man dracut > man dracut.modules > man dracut.cmdline > > See also the module-setup.sh in both 90multipath and 90multipath- > hostonly modules > > Dracut is really a wonderful piece of code that is really easy to > understand and that can create really powerful ramfs images. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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