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  • From: "Jeremy A. Kolb" <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>
  • To: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Let's make Source Mage not suck!
  • Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:04:22 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Eric Sandall wrote:

> 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
>
>

Wedding? Congratulations!

Jeremy





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