On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:03:42PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > Devfs is regarded as obsolete in the kernel source. > > The current initrd images produced by initrd-tools does the following for a > LVM system: > mount -nt devfs devfs /dev > vgchange -a y > umount /dev > > This relies on a kernel with devfs compiled in to boot a system with an LVM > root file system. > > I think that we should not rely on obsolete kernel features (IE devfs) for > any > boot option that is supported by the installer (IE LVM). > > This problem is solved in Fedora by having udev in the initrd, I think that > we > should use the same solution. > > Also I think that we should consider when we want to drop support for devfs > in > the kernel-image packages. At some stage this feature has to be removed as > increasing amounts of kernel code don't work well with it.
Agreed. But please let's get sarge out first, ok? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
