[Nix-dev] systemd in initrd

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 21/08/14 15:39, Luca Bruno wrote:

> The advantages of using systemd are:
[snip]

Another advantage: starting journald very early.

Also: running sshd in the initrd to support receiving the encryption key of the
root disk via "nixops send-keys" :-)

> I hope in an active discussion about this issue, and in a possible
> resolution.

I'm in favor in principle.

The main technical issue is how to describe units for the initrd. I guess we can
just have a ‘boot.initrd.systemd.*’ tree that mirrors ‘systemd.*’.

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Eelco Dolstra | LogicBlox, Inc. | http://nixos.org/~eelco/