Messages in this thread | | | From | Frans Pop <> | Subject | Re: Linux mdadm superblock question. | Date | Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:26:46 +0100 |
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Rudy Zijlstra wrote: > 1/ distro tools assume that the kernel being build will run on that > machine. For servers this is often not true. There are very valid > security reasons to exclude compilation capability from many servers.
That's simply not true, at least not for Debian. If you actually use the distro tools [1] the only assumptions are made at kernel *installation* time, not at kernel build time.
I've been using initramfs-tools generated initrds for years without problems, and that includes "root on LVM on LUKS encrypted partition" and "root on LVM on RAID" setups.
Cheers, FJP
[1] I.e. if you build and install the kernel as a .deb package using e.g. the deb-pkg target or kernel-package.
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