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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: SM-Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Let's make Source Mage not suck!
  • Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:49:49 -0800

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Jeremy A. Kolb wrote:
> 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!

Thank you. :) Adrienne (SweetPotato on IRC) and I are getting married
September 2. Still have to finish the wedding list and all the other fun
stuff. ;)

- -sandalle

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