Re: Setting up /boot when it is not a separate partition

[Fabian Deutsch <fdeutsch redhat com>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:45 PM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015, at 01:17 PM, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
>
> > (See also [0] [1] [2])
> > 2. can partially be addressed by kernel commandline arguments
> > (mpath.wwid=<wwid>) but they can be quite long, and sometimes you
> > might need to add more than one wwid.
>
> I could certainly believe that multipath is painful today for some of
> these, but OTOH it's quite a high cost to go to client-side initramfs
> generation just for that.
>
> I think this shows why it is important to drive the server-generated OS
> model upstream into the distribution as far as possible, rather
> than being an add-on.
>
> A lot of what people do today with client-generated systems should
> really be a lot easier to manage centrally, and I think the distributions
> should encourage this.  (Not always using rpm-ostree; e.g. if you're in
> AWS, the distribution tooling should document how to bake AWS images
> correctly - including things like removing /var/lib/random-seed etc.)
>
> This is easy to say of course, not being the person patching the multipath
> code right now...

I agree that it would be nice if the initramfs was stateless or site
independent.
But the current state is that we need to update the initramfs now and
then to get some site/client specific configurations into it.

Maybe this can be an optional step on the client side, but we need a
tool to update the right initramfs.

- fabian