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

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 18 05:41:36 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 00:28, Bill Nottingham wrote:

> 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 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.

> 
> 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?

-Jim P.







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