Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:21 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> > You're right, that's ONE of the points of using an initramfs. >> Another >> > point would be, that you're able to put / on LVM/Software-RAID. >> >> You don't need an initramfs to use Software RAID for /, as long as the >> necessary modules are built into the kernel. You do need one for LVM. > > Why is that? Is it the user-space tools (vgscan, vgchange, etc) needed > to find the volumes at start time?
Yes, exactly. As you just wrote, with LVM, you need to activate the VGs, find the PVs and so on. For this, user-space tools are required. Not so for Software RAID. According to Neil, the kernel can do all that's required without the help of user-space tools. Neil might be right in saying so - I'd suppose that he is right. Alexander Skwar -- Zoe: "Sir, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
