richard lucassen <mailinglists@???> writes:
> Rainer Weikusat <rainerweikusat@???> wrote:
>
>> For a real deployment, this is usually just humbug and can be replaced
>> with a kernel containing the drivers necessary for mounting a root
>> filesystem.
>
> Plus the drivers for various hardware like cciss devices, just having
> ext4 built in is not enough. Wouldn't it be better to have a simple
> initramfs with just the apropiate modules for the hardware?

No computer I've either been using privately or professionally ever
suddenly grew a new motherboard (simplification) overnight. Hence,
they're all running kernels with the drivers and filesystems necessary
for booting compiled in.