Hi, In testing a more extensive use of systemd (i.e. using it to mount filesystems etc. rather than using rc.sysinit) I've run into a few problems regarding the fact that my LVM is activated in the initrd.
Due to this, various entries in the udev db are not set. systemd uses these missing bits to launch the local-fs.target and thus fails (even if it's just my /home that is broken which won't really be needed). I've been told in various discussions with upstream that ultimately we need to use udev in the initrd. It seems that fedora and suse at least do this. I can work around it of course (we do so just now) but I'd like to get things working as "natively" as possible with systemd if possible. So should we: a) Try to incorporate udev into our mkinitrd? b) Switch to dracut I'm not an expert at this stuff, but I know that Mandriva has started using dracut more and I think it's likely the best solution overall seeing as it's Fedora's preferred mechanism too. But I didn't want to start looking at it until there is some consensus on this - hence this email. FWIW, I've put some detailed info on an Mdv bug concerning this same issue here: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=63471 Col PS I've CC'ed a couple of specifically interested/clued up people so they don't miss this mail, but of course comments from anyone are appreciated:) -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
