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 compiled in to boot a system with an LVM root file system. I think that we should not rely on obsolete kernel features (IE devfs) for any boot option that is supported by the installer (IE LVM). This problem is solved in Fedora by having udev in the initrd, I think that we should use the same solution. Also I think that we should consider when we want to drop support for devfs in the kernel-image packages. At some stage this feature has to be removed as increasing amounts of kernel code don't work well with it. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
