>> I thought about that, but I don't like the "newroot" to be mounted >> read/write during initrd-time :(:( > Hm? Please enlighten me. Why is that bad? Because the initscripts should mount it read/write. In the mean time the filesystem should be fscked (and I think this isn't a good idea on a read/write mounted filesystem) >> /bin/mount -t ext3 -o ro $REAL_ROOT /root > This one. Won't work for eg. reiserfs users (me). Completely true, but I'm afraid it's mounted as ext2 when I don't specify the filesystem type. In search of my previous question I've found multipath-tools: http://christophe.varoqui.free.fr/wiki/wakka.php?wiki=Home which creates device-mapper device nodes in udev and seem to work like a charm: brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 0 Apr 22 21:53 /dev/dm-0 brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 1 Apr 22 21:53 /dev/dm-1 brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 2 Apr 22 21:53 /dev/dm-2 brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 3 Apr 22 21:53 /dev/dm-3 brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 4 Apr 22 21:53 /dev/dm-4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 22 21:53 /dev/pdc_badgbecbh -> dm-0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 22 21:53 /dev/pdc_badgbecbh1 -> dm-1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 22 21:53 /dev/pdc_badgbecbh2 -> dm-2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 22 21:53 /dev/pdc_badgbecbh3 -> dm-3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 22 21:53 /dev/pdc_badgbecbh4 -> dm-4 Although I'm not really sure if I really want hotplug, udevstart and friends in my initrd. Another difficulty are the devices which are created in /dev and not in /dev/mapper, I don't know if this is wrong or correct... It is inconsistent with dmraid. It could be fixed in the udev rules but I don't know why /dev/mapper would be better. I hope this helps someone, and someone could point me out why dmraid uses /dev/mapper/ to hold the device nodes. greetings Dick
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