On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> wrote: > > The initramfs-tools does not depend or recommend mdadm. However, > initramfs-tools is modular and its mdadm support is supplied by the > mdadm package. > > Dracut isn't modular, and its mdadm support is built-in. This is a key > difference. > > One needs to actually read dracut's source code to know how it would > behave in all boundary conditions related to mdadm support, in which > case it might only suggest or not even mention mdadm. It probably is > safe, but the point is that someone has to check it first.
If mdadm isn't available, dracut'll print a warning along the lines of "mdadm will not be installed".
