Top 3 Shell Dracut Projects

zfsbootmenu

161 752 9.2 Shell

ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption

Project mention: Bash Debugging | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-01

We use a couple nice home-grown functions in ZFSBootMenu to help debug things. We have a zdebug logging function that's peppered liberally throughout the code base - https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme...
Hitting ctrl-t on our main menu will, when booting with debug logging enabled, show a screen like this: https://imgur.com/Ge75zkP
We also have a flamegraph profiling mechanism that can be enabled with https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme... . That will dump data to a serial port, which when re-assembled, can be used to produce a graph like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/master...
Bash is suprisingly flexible.

dracut

18 522 7.9 Shell

dracut the event driven initramfs infrastructure

Project mention: Locked root partition | /r/debian | 2023-06-21

InfluxDB

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dracut-frpc

1 1 5.9 Shell

Run an FRP client during system boot using Dracut. Meant for use with dracut-crypt-ssh to remotely decrypt a Fedora server that is behind NAT.

Project mention: Custom Dracut Module: What am I Doing Wrong | /r/Fedora | 2023-10-10

I've been trying to get a specific binary to run in the initramfs environment, before my disk gets decrypted. I have a repo with my code here: https://github.com/ImranR98/dracut-frpc

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