Post #1938127
2026-04-14 22:29 UTC
Everyone loves to dogpile on systemd, but dracut is my nemesis. Is it nice that it's small? Yes. Does it make WAY TOO MANY ASSUMPTIONS? Also yes. I know the default filesystem of Ubuntu is ext4, but why won't you let me boot to an xfs filesystem I setup with debootstrap? Because some magic in dracut enforces the filesystem type, despite me overriding it in the config. So frustrating.
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@smalladventures.net@bsky.brid.gy 2026-04-15 12:05
The big difference though is that there is no particular reason you need to use dracut. Nothing has tight dependencies on it, the integrations are all arms-length. You can even do it manually. I use it where I need boot modules, but I've also used mkinitcpio. My other system avoids boot modules.