Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs

2005-01-18 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Alex Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some of us have woody running on LVM1... well I have this with 2.4 Debian kernel and LVM1. For LVM1 to work with a kernel that has devfs compiled in (debian kernels for woody do) then /dev/ has to be a mounted devfs. For people such as myself sarge as it

Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs

2005-01-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
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

Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs

2005-01-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op ma, 17-01-2005 te 20:03 +1100, schreef Russell Coker: 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

Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs

2005-01-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
In that case, we should probably drop debian-installer altogether, as it uses DevFS throughout :-) Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt in 2.6.11-rc1: What: devfs When: July 2005 Files: fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs function calls throughout the

Re: initrd, lvm, and devfs

2005-01-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 17 January 2005 20:34, Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so unless Debian wants to stay with stoneage kernels you're better of starting to fix D-I. That beeing said D-I people have been told repeatedly that basing an installer on devfs is a bad idea long time ago, but let's