[linux-lvm] vgscan and initrd

[Mark H. Wood]

Your follow-up makes it sound as though you have a different problem from
mine, but I can answer your question about mounting tmpfs over /etc:

  mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /etc

You wind up with an empty /etc, but at that point there should be no
problem.  vgscan just wants some place to store a metadata backup which
you are going to throw away, and after pivot-root runs you'll have a
different /etc anyway.  If the Gentoo startup scripts are like Red Hat's,
they'll do a second LVM metadata backup into the "real" /etc later.

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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood at IUPUI.Edu
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