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On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Robin Atwood <robin.atwood@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Friday 04 Jan 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Robin Atwood |
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>> <robin.atwood@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> > Having observed all the ranting, I thought I would try systemd on a |
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>> > laptop. It actually seems to work quite well and it is a lot faster. |
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>> > However I am having trouble getting my LVM partitions mounted. I |
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>> > installed the LVM service unit from the Gentoo Wiki but it never |
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>> > completes, timing-out on a job that mounts /var. The VG is actually |
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>> > created by an initramfs and when systemd dumps you out to the emergency |
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>> > shell you can use lvs to see the volumes, /dev/mapper has all the |
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>> > correct devices and "dmsetup ls" shows the LVs. In fact, everything |
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>> > appears as it should, the partitions just don't get mounted. I |
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>> > circumvented this by putting "mount -a" in the lvm.service unit, which |
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>> > then completes and the mount jobs time-out. Everything seems to be OK |
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>> > but it is a bit of a kludge. One thing I notice is: |
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>> > # udevadm info -p /dev/mapper/vg00-rootfs -q all |
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>> > syspath not found |
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>> > Udev seems not to know about the LVs. Any ideas? |
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>> How did you create your initramfs? Have you tried dracut, with |
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>> DRACUT_MODULES="lvm"? |
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>> Regards. |
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> I always use genkernel with LVM=YES in genkernel.conf. There is a thread about |
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> the udev issue at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6837888.html . I tried |
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> the suggested work-around but it made no difference, I must still use "mount - |
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> a". |
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I've never used genkernel. You could try dracut; its mandatory |
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dependencies are minimal, and it's actually designed to create an |
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initramfs, not like genkernel, where the functionality was added as an |
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afterthought. |
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Another option is to roll your own initramfs, like the first responder |
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in the forums thread. |
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Good luck. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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