[SM-Discuss] Initrd with udev and LVM; may be good for ISO
David Kowis
dkowis at shlrm.org
Mon Aug 29 13:07:48 EDT 2005
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Please feel free to file a feature request on bugzilla for us. Right now we're more concerned with basic things like getting an install bug
free. This is an interesting thing, however. I think software RAID can be done without the initrd having LVM support in it. It has to do
with partitions being marked a certain way.
using strategies listed here: http://wiki.clug.org.za/clugwiki/index.php/RAID-1_in_a_hurry_with_grub_and_mdadm
notably "Make the hda partition types "RAID auto-start"..."
Anyways, we'll be getting to these "fancier" features eventually :)
Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've recently committed changes that make a static udevstart binary, as well as
> changes for device-mapper and lvm to make static binaries. I also committed a
> new scenario for a very good linux-initrd spell by David. This scenario uses
> the things above to create a working initrd image without devfs, that also
> allows a root partition to be a logical volume. This work was also based on Red
> Hat's LVM howto document and LVM2 docs.
> While my "itch" has been scratched, and my new server has / as l.v., I'd like to
> suggest that a new ISO includes these three static binaries mentioned above, and
> uses udev instead of obsolete devfs.
> Also, presently, LVM stuff is not on the ISO's initrd so it can't be used to
> troubleshoot a system with / as l.v. However, the fact that the latest ISO
> 0.9.4 beta itself *has* LVM on it, allows one to set up such a system (and this
> is VERY GOOD, thanks a lot guys!). It wouldn't start without an initrd though
> :-), hence my commits.
>
> One note: I had to use busybox's shell in this new initrd "scenario" because on
> amd64 with gcc 3.4 and 4.0, bash.static sefgaults in an easily reproducible
> way. The one built with 3.3 seems to be fine.
>
> Cheers,
> Sergey.
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David Kowis
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