TBH I'm less concerned about this from the POV of a FFE rather than in
general. You won't ever need this in almost all cloud environments, and
it adds unnecessarily complexity, boot delays, and potential boot
blockers. I can't think of a reason why you would set up LVM and mdadm
in the cloud guest, rather than on the host?

This is different for using cloud images on real hardware, of course.
But for that we are also missing a lot of kernel drivers for that (as
the cloud images only have linux-image-virtual, not -generic).

Perhaps it would be time to split this to build two images? One for real
clouds, which could then also drop other bits which are rarely needed in
the cloud and would better be installed on demand in user_data:
accountsservice, ntfs-3g, sosreport, aptitude, vim, etc. And one which
are much more like the server images that we have today, with a nice and
complete shell CLI environment, a full kernel, mdadm and friends?

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