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Szerző: Brad Campbell
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Tárgy: Re: [DNG] Giving Devuan sans-initramfs capabilities
On 02/01/16 02:18, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> Steve Litt <slitt@???> writes:
>
> [...]


> 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.


That's nice, until you want to do something like an encrypted root, or
encrypted swap with suspend/resume. That's pretty hard without an initramfs.

And before you say that's a special case, it's pretty standard for any
laptop in a sensitive environment. In fact we have servers configured
that way.

Brad
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