Bug#374378: initramfs-tools: Fails to initialize LVM if pvmove was ran without completing

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

tags 374378 important
stop

breakage happens not under usual circumstances thus severity important.

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:35:21AM +0300, Viktor Pilpenok wrote:
 
> If pvmove was ran on the system and did not complete (eg due to a crash, power 
> failure, etc), LVM2 requires the "mirror" dm target to activate the VG
> 
> By default the initrd only contains dm-mod and dm-snapshot kernel modules.
> Thus making a system with root on LVM unbootable under the above condition.
> 
> This problem should whould probably be fixed by adding dm-mirror module to the
> default initrd configuration, and making the scripts load it before 
> initializing LVM.

dm-mirror is also needed if you want to boot from an lvm snapshot,
will be added to the next release.

thanks for your report.

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maks