For the benefit of anyone reading this bug report, I'll CC the reply
and patch I sent to the upstream bugzilla entry:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6394
............
I think the reason the workaround didn't work was that not both
detection routines (block 0 and 1) were moved down in the table.
I've attached a patch which moves both of them and updates the
comments, I'll forward it to the Debian bug report as well.
Regards,
David
BTW, if a partition has previously been used as lvm and is going to be
used for a new purpose, one should run "pvremove" on it to remove all
traces of lvm signatures.
Index: klibc-1.3.5/usr/kinit/fstype/fstype.c
===================================================================
--- klibc-1.3.5.orig/usr/kinit/fstype/fstype.c 2006-04-09 04:46:59.000000000
+0200
+++ klibc-1.3.5/usr/kinit/fstype/fstype.c 2006-04-16 11:15:37.000000000
+0200
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
* FSTYPE - filesystem type
* FSSIZE - filesystem size (if known)
*
- * We currently detect (in order):
- * gzip, cramfs, romfs, xfs, luks, lvm2, minix, ext3, ext2, reiserfs, jfs,
swap
+ * We currently detect the filesystems listed below in the struct
+ * "imagetype images" (in the order they are listed).
*
* MINIX, ext3 and Reiserfs bits are currently untested.
*/
@@ -231,8 +231,13 @@
/*
* Note:
+ *
* Minix test needs to come after ext3/ext2, since it's possible for
* ext3/ext2 to look like minix by pure random chance.
+ *
+ * LVM comes after all other filesystems since it's possible
+ * that an old lvm signature is left on the disk if pvremove
+ * is not used before creating the new fs.
*/
static struct imagetype images[] = {
{ 0, "gzip", gzip_image },
@@ -240,14 +245,14 @@
{ 0, "romfs", romfs_image },
{ 0, "xfs", xfs_image },
{ 0, "luks", luks_image },
- { 0, "lvm2", lvm2_image },
- { 1, "lvm2", lvm2_image },
{ 1, "ext3", ext3_image },
{ 1, "ext2", ext2_image },
{ 1, "minix", minix_image },
{ 8, "reiserfs", reiserfs_image },
{ 64, "reiserfs", reiserfs_image },
{ 32, "jfs", jfs_image },
+ { 0, "lvm2", lvm2_image },
+ { 1, "lvm2", lvm2_image },
{ -1, "swap", swap_image },
{ 0, "", NULL }
};
