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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Let's make Source Mage not suck!
  • Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:58:30 -0800

Quoting Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org>:
Am Thu, 4 Jan 2007 11:56:45 -0600
schrieb Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>:


over that init.d issue speaks volumes on what we're currently actually
[...]
open that long? It's even 99% diagnosed, it "just" needs fixing.
Obviously I haven't had time, but I find it hard to belive *no one else*
has had time either.

I'd add that apparently noone is affected by the prognosted failure except perhaps the reporter of that old bug?
We didn't support any device mapper targets that were set up in initrd/initramfs until I thought it would be cool to use suspend2 with encrypted swap.
I encrypted my swap, fiddled around with busybox to get my initramfs and then added this dmsetup call that rediscovers the volumes on "real" boot before mount in the init script.
No rocket science (well, the init.d part at least;-), all it needed was a _use case_.
We at least need one LVM root setup that could be bitten by the bug to test the fix on. For me that means setting up some spare box with LVM root from scratch (since I didn't do any LVM stuff yet... only bare device-mapper for encryption).
Isn't there ANYONE among our devs who has LVM root or at least basic LVM experience and some hardware to quickly set up the test case?
If no, then perhaps we should just push stable out and wait for any complaint to happen (we could warn about LVM root in release notes... eh... if we had such a thing on scribe update).

I have some LVM experiences, and spare boxes laying around, but I'm about to pick up a third part-time job to help pay for my wedding that I still need to finish planning ;), so my free time is rapidly decreasing :(.

-sandalle

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