Re: suggested initramfs-tools patches
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:45:30PM +0000, Struan Bartlett wrote:
>
> I'm not sure whether this is the right place to write to. I've made a
> few patches to this package that my company is using in production, and
> I would like to contribute them back to the Debian community. The
> patches are:
yes it is, go for it.
> 1. allowing an LVM root device to be specified as /dev/VG/LV instead of
> /dev/mapper/VG-LV
there is an open bug #378332
beware the critics of that patch and that /dev/VG/LV is *just* a
symlink. please post your patch as followup there.
> 2. incorporating lvm, and the standard ext3 tools resize2fs and
> mkfs.ext3 in the ramdisk, which provides users with the basic tools to
> resize, rename, their filesystems and logical volumes (particularly
> their root filesystems) without needing an alternative system on the
> hard disk to boot off.
no.
that is a special case that is not worth to ship any initramfs with.
initramfs-tools is explicitly made hookable to allow such inhouse
"abuse".
kind regards
--
maks
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