non root LVM not working with recent initscripts

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Sun Apr 3 00:05:41 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:17 +0200, Ronny Buchmann wrote:
> On a system with / on a normal partition and other filesystems on LVM volumes 
> rc.sysinit tries to fsck the LVM volumes before they are available.
> 
> If / is also on LVM, mkinitrd runs vgscan before rc.sysinit, so everything is 
> fine here.
> 
> So the question is, should this be solved in mkinitrd (by running vgscan 
> whenever LVM is present, not only when / is on LVM) or in initscripts?

No, rc.sysinit should be initializing all non-"/" VGs.

In particular, the initrd must *not* initialize volume groups which
might be clustered, and it's fairly complicated to keep track of all of
that in the initrd.

> And against what should the bug be filed?

"initscripts".

-- 
        Peter




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