On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 18:17 +0200, Ronny Buchmann wrote:
> On a system with / on a normal partition and other filesystems on LVM volumes
> rc.sysinit tries to fsck the LVM volumes before they are available.
>
> If / is also on LVM, mkinitrd runs vgscan before rc.sysinit, so everything is
> fine here.
>
> So the question is, should this be solved in mkinitrd (by running vgscan
> whenever LVM is present, not only when / is on LVM) or in initscripts?
No, rc.sysinit should be initializing all non-"/" VGs.
In particular, the initrd must *not* initialize volume groups which
might be clustered, and it's fairly complicated to keep track of all of
that in the initrd.
> And against what should the bug be filed?
"initscripts".
--
Peter
