Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:03:42PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> Devfs is regarded as obsolete in the kernel source.
>
> The current initrd images produced by initrd-tools does the following for a
> LVM system:
> mount -nt devfs devfs /dev
> vgchange -a y
> umount /dev
>
> This relies on a kernel with devfs compiled in to boot a system with an LVM
> root file system.
>
> I think that we should not rely on obsolete kernel features (IE devfs) for any
> boot option that is supported by the installer (IE LVM).
>
> This problem is solved in Fedora by having udev in the initrd, I think that we
> should use the same solution.
>
> Also I think that we should consider when we want to drop support for devfs in
> the kernel-image packages. At some stage this feature has to be removed as
> increasing amounts of kernel code don't work well with it.
Agreed. But please let's get sarge out first, ok?
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