initramfs generation needs to be streamlined

microsoft / azurelinux

Linux OS for Azure 1P services and edge appliances

MIT License

4.31k stars 549 forks source link

initramfs generation needs to be streamlined #7024

Open dmcilvaney opened 11 months ago

dmcilvaney commented 11 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The current mkinitrd is archaic. We should be directly invoking dracut to generate an initramfs.

Describe the solution you'd like Refactor all code that calls mkinitrd to instead call dracut, better use the existing configuraiton options of dracut (ie hostonly, etc.).

Additional context Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

LaszloGombos commented 8 months ago

Some recent commits seems to be increasing the usage of mkinitrd - https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/pull/7358

PR commit switches to use the default way mkinitrd to build / update the initrd img for DM-Verity, instead of using dracut to build another new initramfs img

CC @liulanze