Bug#727708: systemd status when using multiple block device layers (MD/LVM/dm-crypt) below the root-fs

2014-01-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 07:08:34PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:15:33AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Similarly, I'm not sure why the focus on only adding necessary tools to the initramfs image. Surely this doesn't matter much if the tools are harmless when

Bug#727708: systemd status when using multiple block device layers (MD/LVM/dm-crypt) below the root-fs

2014-01-01 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2014-01-01 at 05:48 +0100, Mourad De Clerck wrote: So last time I tried, this just worked - my rootfs got mounted using a keyscript in the initramfs, and there were no problems, not a peep from systemd when it took over, no re-setup or anything. Sure... but that applies, AFAIU, only

Bug#727708: systemd status when using multiple block device layers (MD/LVM/dm-crypt) below the root-fs

2013-12-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Now that systemd could become default in Debian (well at least I favour it over upstream)... I started wondering how well it supports booting from a root fs on top of multiple block device layers? Some time ago I wrote [0] (with some contributions from others AFAICS)... So is there any

Bug#727708: systemd status when using multiple block device layers (MD/LVM/dm-crypt) below the root-fs

2013-12-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 11:15 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: For whatever it's worth, I've been using systemd on a system with LVM and dm-crypt (with LUKS) for about a month now, in the dm-crypt - LVM - filesystem mode, and haven't had any trouble. Do you use it on your root-fs? With keyscripts?

Bug#727708: systemd status when using multiple block device layers (MD/LVM/dm-crypt) below the root-fs

2013-12-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 21:07 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: That's handled by the initramfs where we currently don't use systemd. (It's supported upstream to do so and we might eventually investigate that, but I don't believe anybody has done any work on it for Debian.) Sure... but - using

Bug#727708: systemd status when using multiple block device layers (MD/LVM/dm-crypt) below the root-fs

2013-12-31 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Christoph Anton Mitterer On Tue, 2013-12-31 at 21:07 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: That's handled by the initramfs where we currently don't use systemd. (It's supported upstream to do so and we might eventually investigate that, but I don't believe anybody has done any work on it for

Bug#727708: systemd status when using multiple block device layers (MD/LVM/dm-crypt) below the root-fs

2013-12-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 11:15:33AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Similarly, I'm not sure why the focus on only adding necessary tools to the initramfs image. Surely this doesn't matter much if the tools are harmless when unneeded? In this context I'm not sure how applicable it is; but there are