[linux-lvm] booting w/o initrd

Ulf Bartelt ulf at twc.de
Thu Dec 23 08:32:16 UTC 1999


Luca Berra wrote:
> 
> there are some good ideas here, i will only point the problems.
> On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 02:25:37PM +0100, Ulf Bartelt wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> > And when bringing the system down, LVM can be stopped cleanly because the
> > root filesystem is only addressed via the partition alias.
> 
> add mirrored LV to the equation and you'll obtain a mess.

The idea works for now. When I get in touch with mirrored LVs, I sure
have to rethink a lot. 

> what's the problem with initrd, just look at it as a very big
> __initfunc(), just easier to debug.

I dont see the clean __exitfunc().

Maybe I don't "see the forest because of too many trees" (we'd say in
german...)...

Bye!
	Ulf.



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