What is the impact of hostonly_cmdline on initramfs image?

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Issue

  • In RHEL 7 GA, hostonly_cmdline is newly introduced in /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/01-dist.conf file. hostonly_cmdline is set to "no" by default in RHEL 7 GA.
  • What is the impact of hostonly_cmdline on initramfs image? If it is set to "yes" then what is the impact and if it is set to "no" then what is the impact on initramfs image?
  • What is the difference between hostonly and hostonly_cmdline?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0

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