Bug#370556: initramfs-tools: does not handle cryptroot-on-lvm properly

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

hello david,

thanks for your response and quick jump in!

On Tue, 06 Jun 2006, David Härdeman wrote:
<snipp bug report>
> I think a better approach (which I've suggested before) would be to have a
> list of devices that should be present before we try to mount root. That
> list could then contain md/lvm/evms/crypto/dmraid devices as necessary, in
> the proper order.
> 
> E.g. for root-on-lvm-on-crypto-on-lvm-on-raid-on-two-hds
> rootdeps=/dev/hda,/dev/hdb,/dev/md0,/dev/mapper/basevg-baselv,/dev/mapper/cryptdevice,/dev/mapper/mainvg-rootlv

nack, this adds extra complexity with not much gain.
evms is pretty contained and does not need that,
also we want to autodetect so far as as possible.

i would not know of another usage than cryptoroot itself,
which is still quite specialized even if easy and fun with luks.

please take care to document for the cryptoroot on lvm user what they need
to pass as root param.
 
regards

-- 
maks

ps there is a bug on initramfs-tools asking for an keymap to be included,
i don't want to do it in generic case for the rescue shell,
but i thought it might be relevant for cryptsetup keyboards??