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

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Feb 18 05:28:37 UTC 2004


Jim Popovitch (jimpop at yahoo.com) said: 
> > It's not 'to not inconvenience them', it's 'to keep their systems
> > functional'. There's a slight difference.
> 
> But I don't understand how you could have an LVM system without the lvm
> rpm (tools,etc?), but I see how most people would have mkinitrd and not
> need it's lvm dependency.  If I understand this correctly, you DONT need
> mkinitrd to have an lvm system,

You absolutely need mkinitrd to have a LVM system. In fact, it's one of
the ones you *can't* boot without an initrd.

Feel free to file a bug against mkinitrd. In the grand scheme of things,
it's $.20 of disk space. ;)

Bill





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