On Wed, July 2, 2008 00:33, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 23:44 +0200, David Härdeman wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:25:50PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: >>> If you want to modify or create root devices, it should be done with a >>> udev rule. >> >> Ummm, are we still talking about the same thing? cryptsetup creates the >> root device in an initramfs script...of course it won't use any root >> devices... ... > If it creates it from block devices, it should be written as a script > called by a udev rule, not as an initramfs script.
We're discussing in the context of Debian bug #488271 right now. That is, the discussion is whether we need a proposed rootdelay patch in Debian's version of cryptsetup or not... > See mdadm, lvm, etc. for comparison -- in Ubuntu, those are called from > udev, when the underlying block device is actually ready. > > cryptsetup should behave in the same way; when a block device is ready > for use, it should be called by a udev rule and make the devmapper > device -- that will release the loop in mountroot() and allow the > initramfs to exit. I completely agree with this approach. In fact I proposed it to Marco d'Itri (Debian's udev maintainer) in April 2007 and pushed a testing branch to the initramfs-tools git repo at about the same time. Unfortunately it was rejected by the udev maintainer. I should probably raise that proposal again when I have time... Anyway, we're going offtopic. -- David Härdeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
