Re: initramfs tools [u]

["Andreas Jellinghaus [c]" <aj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Sonntag, 6. Mai 2007 10:15 schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
> That sounds very much like you just reinvented the wheel, since I can
> do that already with opensuse's initrds. Perhaps not only that.
> Everyone who packages GNU mount (which does in fact use blkid) has
> the ability to mount by label, and Fedora is another one which can do
> that. Plus, everyone should be supporting -b to start the emergency
> shell. As far as switchroot is concerned, klibc provides run-init.

mount by label? does that also work for md devices and lvm mappings?

I'm asking because at least some versions of udev do not 
populate /dev/disk/by-uuid/ and /dev/disk/by-label/ for lvm devices.
so far I thought udev was used to mount by label or uuid... or maybe
udev uses blkid too?

Andreas
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