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  • From: "David Brown" <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>
  • To: "David Kowis" <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • Cc: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Status of LVM
  • Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:37:28 -0800

Yeah, as long as we can still do it the "old" way (which is what we've
got right now) I don't have any problems with this. LVM root would be a
neat thing to do, but it will open up more problems. It's easy to forget
to build in the right parts and totally screw up your box. We'd need to
have a way to ensure that the ISO can be a rescue cd for a setup like
this as well. By rescue cd, I simply mean able to recognize and mount
the partitions.

Yeah the iso would have to either work with me to include this into
the iso's kernel/initrd or just make their own custom initrd/kernel
and use that. On irc it was discussed that this maybe the case that
the iso kernel and the kernel installed on the users system would be
different and this setup I'm thinking of (and have working now) would
be something for the users system not nessisarily for the iso's
kernel.

The only real addition to the initscripts I had to make was running
dmsetup mknodes in mountroot.sh so that the device nodes get created
(since they are activated in the initrd the other commands didn't need
to be run). The mountall.sh script ended up creating the symlinks.
I'll have to add different commands and see how things act on boot up.

- David Brown




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