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Wait, you store the local roots on disk? Why not nfs or something similar - especially if you run from ram anyway?

Also sounds like a missed opportunity for kexec and a pivot to new rootfs on a new ramdisk?

Ed: based on https://www.talos-systems.com/docs/guides/bare_metal/ i gather i misunderstood what was said here; its new config in pxe, shutdown and reboot? Which maybe could be shutdown and kexec.

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andrewrynhard6y ago

The rootfs in stored in the booloader partition and in the initramfs. As for NFS, I can see us adding support for that, but the out of the box experience for Talos in any of clouds will be painful if we exclusively require NFS.

Since we adhere to the KSPP (https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Pr...) guidelines, kexec is not an option unfortunately. We thought about this early on, but opted to follow KSPP over using kexec.

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