lvm is needed by (installed) mkinitrd-3.5.14-1

[Bill Nottingham]

Jim Popovitch (jimpop at yahoo.com) said: 
> > You absolutely need mkinitrd to have a LVM system. In fact, it's one of
> > the ones you *can't* boot without an initrd.
> 
> But can't you have an existing initrd without mkinitrd? 

If you want to losetup, mke2fs, mount, cp, umount, etc. all by
hand, sure.

> If what you say
> is true, then all lvm users need to have mkinitrd as a dependency of
> lvm, not the other way as it is now.

lvm does not require mkinitrd for general use. An initrd is only
required for root on LVM.

The dependency is there as a convenience to avoid broken systems.
As I said, if it tasks you, file a bug.

> > Feel free to file a bug against mkinitrd. In the grand scheme of things,
> > it's $.20 of disk space. ;)
> 
> Yes, but it's $20+ worth of insight.  Out of curiosity, what's your role
> at RH?

Grumpy bastard.

Bill