My root-on-lvm system has worked reliably for some time, but fails to boot every time with kernel 3.8.
I suspect the change may be due to the removal of the scsi_wait_scan module in 3.6. (init-top/udev waits using the module if available.) Bug 678688 suggests a solution involving repeated calls to a "local-block" script on availability of a new block device, but it doesn't seem to have been implemented. An alternative would be for LVM to provide udev rules to automatically activate the root vg/lv when the relevant devices are available. I'm not sure at what point the information needed to make this determination becomes available. A third solution would be for the hook scripts to construct a list of block devices needed to bring up the root vg/lv, and have the lvm initramfs script wait for these specific devices to be available. This is more fragile if disks are reconfigured. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130603162451.gf4...@leiserson.org
