[linux-lvm] Some suggestions about lvminitrd_create

Heinz J . Mauelshagen mauelshagen at sistina.com
Thu May 16 09:27:02 UTC 2002


On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:56:31AM +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> 
> Just a couple of suggestions firstly it would be nice if it checked
> for /boot/System.map-'uname -r' rather than for just /boot/System.map.
> When you have more than one kernel floating about this is handy.

Yep, that's what the "-F" option aims to support.

> 
> Second suggestion it would be nice if a -t option existed to allow a
> choice in the type of filesystem the initrd is created in. Not everyone
> is using ext2 these days :)

Well, why do you want to use a different filesystem on a relatively tiny
and little populated ram disk?

> 
> JAB.
> 
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