Re: Logical Volume Manager

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Alan" == Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:

    Alan> The issue that concerns me with LVS is is that it has a
    Alan> command to create an initrd image for booting.  I suspect
    Alan> that it is creating something that loads the lvm modules in
    Alan> the kernel, but the documentation (in your words) contains
    Alan> "jack shit" about it.  What I really need to do is create an
    Alan> initrd image which loads both lvm AND the ext3 module for
    Alan> root.

I know nothing about lvm, but if you are interested (and don't already
know this :-) the two commands you need are mkinitrd and 'mount -t
cramfs -o loop' to look at the initrd images and combine them.

Cheers!
Shyamal