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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT sourcemage.org>, Andrew Stitt <a AT t.armory.com>, Arjan Bouter <abouter AT sourcemage.org>, SM-Commit Daemon <sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org>, duane_malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>, Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>, Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee AT eekee.is-a-geek.org>, Gareth Clay <gareth AT caffeinefuelled.co.uk>, Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz>, Maurizio Boriani <baux AT member.fsf.org>, Pieter Lenaerts <e-type AT sourcemage.org>, Pol Vinogradov <vin.public AT gmail.com>, Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>, Seth Woolley <seth AT swoolley.homeip.net>, Unet <unet AT sourcemage.org>, vladimir_marek <vlmarek AT volny.cz>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] PERFORCE change 78002 by Sergey A. Lipnevich for review
  • Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:10:55 +0200

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 02:01:08PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Apr 19, Sergey A. Lipnevich [sergey AT sourcemage.org] wrote:
> > Quoting "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>:
> >
> > >On Apr 19, Perforce Review Daemon [p4review AT smee.org] wrote:
> > >>Change 78002 by sergey_lipnevich@laptop on 2006/04/19 05:53:12
> > >>
> > >> Initialize LVM stuff before mounting root
> > >
> > >This doesn't work. LVM fails because /proc isn't there when it tries to
> > >scan. Based on my experience and the data in bug 9177 it'll also fail
> > >when
> > >it doesn't have a r/w /etc.
> > >
> > >I assume you're using / LVM with an initrd, so maybe that changes what's
> > >available at that point, but it definitely doesn't work on a system that
> > >has non-LVM /.
> >
> > You're right, I am using initrd (the profile I added to initrd spell). I
> > think it's possible to mount all (or most) filesystems like /proc before
> > root, so why aren't we doing it in this order?
>
> I'll look at doing proc first, but that won't solve the /etc problem. I'll
> see it if I can find some docs on that, I noted it in the bug but no one
> indicated they were having any issues with the reordering that was done so
> I thought it was working for people.

All special filesystem like proc, tmpfs, devfs, sysfs, ... can be
mounted fine before any explicit mounting (rw or ro) of /, udev systems
already mount several of them in the DEV runlevel because udev requires
them to work.

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
http://www.sourcemage.org




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