| 3 May 2023 |
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 @mberndt:matrix.org | I've added a module to enable booting from a root file system on a Stratis volume. All input is welcome.
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/229767
It would be nice to test this, but I have almost no experience with Nix or NixOS, so I don't really know where to start. | 23:25:32 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | Nick Cao, you packaged Stratisd, right? So this might be of interest to you | 23:26:12 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | I'm not using Clevis myself, so I haven't added support for that yet. | 23:27:15 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | Also it would be nice if nixos-generate-config could automatically detect stratis volumes and configure things appropriately. I might do these things in a future version, but for now I'd like to get this MVP-type thing merged ;-) | 23:29:32 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | * Also it would be nice if nixos-generate-config could automatically detect stratis volumes and configure things appropriately. I might do these things in a future version, but for now I'd like to get this MVP-type thing merged | 23:29:48 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | Oh, and probably not every single one of the crypto modules is needed 😅 But I don't know which ones could be needed, so I just added a whole bunch of them. #worksOnMyMachine | 23:33:00 |
| 4 May 2023 |
 @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | mberndt: Did you test that without plymouth? Because my guess it that it should work without plymouth, if it uses systemd-ask-password. | 00:28:21 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | Benutzt es aber nicht | 05:41:48 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | It doesn't use systemd-ask-password | 05:42:16 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | It just runs Plymouth: https://github.com/stratis-storage/stratisd/blob/77cc6df928c554464a84e9aac7af4718196babdf/dracut/90stratis/stratis-rootfs-setup#L20
I don't know why they did it that way. I guess we could change it | 05:45:28 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Oh wow. Yea that's unfortunate. I guess they wanted to support non-systemd-initrd | 05:47:10 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | but that very much sucks because plymouth is definitely not a given either | 05:48:20 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | I do have an assertion to make sure it is used | 05:48:43 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | I know | 05:48:54 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | it's just a bummer | 05:49:38 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | I mean we could patch it but I dunno if it's worth it | 05:49:55 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | I don't think their initrd support actually works without systemd, it looks like an oversight to me | 05:50:04 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Oh | 05:50:14 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | I can just create a PR in their repo to fix that | 05:50:36 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | I mean they use a systemd generator. That isn't going to work without systemd | 05:51:07 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Well do they exclusively do it that way? It's not uncommon to support non-systemd dracut and systemd dracut | 05:52:26 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | * Well do they exclusively do it that way? It's not uncommon to support both non-systemd dracut and systemd dracut | 05:52:36 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | It doesn't look like it to me:
https://github.com/stratis-storage/stratisd/blob/77cc6df928c554464a84e9aac7af4718196babdf/dracut/90stratis/module-setup.sh | 05:54:58 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | And in this other script they just use systemd-ask-password:
https://github.com/stratis-storage/stratisd/blob/77cc6df928c554464a84e9aac7af4718196babdf/systemd/stratis-fstab-setup#L27 | 05:56:00 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | Interesting. Well, might as well open a PR; it's a real simple change | 05:56:31 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | Yup | 05:56:39 |
| @elvishjerricco:matrix.org | could then remove plymouth from these "dependencies" I guess https://github.com/stratis-storage/stratisd/blob/77cc6df928c554464a84e9aac7af4718196babdf/dracut/90stratis/module-setup.sh#L37 | 05:56:53 |
| @mberndt:matrix.org | Yes | 05:57:18 |
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