Hey Alasdair, thanks for your comments.
On 04/11/2010 Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > If the complex processing doesn't work for everyone then yes, simplify > it and activate everything always. > > To do it the other way you need logic something like: > Every time you boot, check if the stack of devices necessary to be > activated has changed, and if so, update the information for use next > time it boots. > At boot time, try the last stack known to work first. If it doesn't > work, try any other different saved stacks from earlier boots. If none > of them work then fall back to activating everything. > > In other words make the initramfs code robust enough to cope with > the unexpected! I now changed the initramfs code to always activate all volume groups: both before cryptsetup in case the source device is not available, and after cryptsetup in case the unlocked device contains lvm data. this way, the complicated and error-prone volume group -guessing code is not needed anymore. greetings, jonas
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