Steve, writes:
> Is there any reason why we can't auto-detect/bring up volume-groups in the
> kernel instead of creating a ramdisk volume to do a vgscan and then mount a
> rootlv?
Um, yes, because it won't work. The user tools do the I/O of LVM state
information to the disk. The kernel LVM module has no concept of how
LVM information is stored on disk.
> Just trying to see if there is a way (or would make sense) to skip the
> ramdisk stage in mounting a root logical volume.
Need to re-write (or at least seriously enhance) the LVM kernel code to do
this. Sorry.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
\ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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