[Nix-dev] systemd in initrd

[Alexander Zubkov]

On 2014-08-21 17:55, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> 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" :-)

etc, etc, ... and viola - we will not be needing root filesystem at all. :)

My option is keep initrd as simple as possible and not to bound it to 
particular init system. Because one day may be someone will make another 
option for init system in nixos.

Also, if somebody cares, I'm not a big fan of systemd, but nixos 
interesting aspects and some sort of abstraction layer from systemd 
allows this compromise. So please no more systemd. :)

>
>> 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.*’.
>