zfsbootmenu VS dracut

Compare zfsbootmenu vs dracut and see what are their differences.

dracut

dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure (by dracutdevs)
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zfsbootmenu dracut
161 18
745 514
6.6% 4.1%
9.2 7.9
9 days ago 7 days ago
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MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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zfsbootmenu

Posts with mentions or reviews of zfsbootmenu. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-01.

dracut

Posts with mentions or reviews of dracut. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zfsbootmenu and dracut you can also consider the following projects:

mkinitcpio - Arch Linux initramfs generation tools (read-only mirror)

root-on-zfs-systemdboot - Dual-boot Root-on-ZFS config for Debian w/ systemd-boot

archiso-zfs - Easily load ZFS kernel module on any Archiso.

yubikey-full-disk-encryption - Use YubiKey to unlock a LUKS partition

ramroot - Load root file system to ram during boot.

zectl - ZFS Boot Environment manager for Linux

systemd - The systemd System and Service Manager

nonguix

zfs - OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD

voidvault - Bootstrap Void with FDE

squashfs-tools-ng - A new set of tools and libraries for working with SquashFS images

wireguard-initramfs - Use dropbear over wireguard.