[Mageia-dev] udev in initrd and/or using dracut (LVM root fs related)

Thu Oct 20 21:05:21 CEST 2011

I switched from mkinitrd to dracut on all systems using lvm in order to
+prevent these very issues
+actually in mandriva i pushed for migrating to dracut
+i would suggest doing the same thing with mageia
+
+On 19/10/11 16:00, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+> On 19 October 2011 15:20, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>> In testing a more extensive use of systemd (i.e. using it to mount
+>> filesystems etc. rather than using rc.sysinit) I've run into a few
+>> problems regarding the fact that my LVM is activated in the initrd.
+>>
+>> Due to this, various entries in the udev db are not set. systemd uses
+>> these missing bits to launch the local-fs.target and thus fails (even if
+>> it's just my /home that is broken which won't really be needed).
+>>
+>> I've been told in various discussions with upstream that ultimately we
+>> need to use udev in the initrd. It seems that fedora and suse at least
+>> do this.
+>>
+>> I can work around it of course (we do so just now) but I'd like to get
+>> things working as "natively" as possible with systemd if possible.
+>>
+>> So should we:
+>>
+>>  a) Try to incorporate udev into our mkinitrd?
+>>  b) Switch to dracut
+>>
+>> I'm not an expert at this stuff, but I know that Mandriva has started
+>> using dracut more and I think it's likely the best solution overall
+>> seeing as it's Fedora's preferred mechanism too.
+>>
+>> But I didn't want to start looking at it until there is some consensus
+>> on this - hence this email.
+> I think we shall not support the mkinitrd burden only by ourselves
+> If all other are switching to dracut, we may have to too
+> At some point, we'd extensive changes (by Luca?) for detecting MD/DM/LV,
+> dunno if drakcut is ready to replace?
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