[Yaird-devel] Bug#459777: Bug#459777: yaird: Can not start mirrored LVs and interrupted pvmove (LVM)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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package yaird
tags wontfix
thanks

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:16:57PM +0100, Artur Górniak wrote:
>Plan.pm:
>353c353
><       ModProbe::addOptModules ($actions, [ "dm-mirror" ], 1);
>---
>>       ModProbe::addModules ($actions, [ "dm-mirror" ]);
>
>It is needed for LVM raids (yaird is partially compatible with them/it is
>necessery to do initrd after configuring mirrors).
>
>Moreover dm-mirror is needed in all situations when pvmove command was
>interrupted.
>
>In both situations it is much more safe to add dm-mirror to all LVM setups.
>If not in Plan.pm it should be added to:
>/etc/yaird/Templates.cfg as
>MODULE dm-mirror in vgchange template (not tested).

Current behaviour is to always include dm-mirror if it exists.

What you propose is to refuse generating ramdisks if dm-mirror is not 
available.

I disagree with you, and hope to be able to convince you it is wrong.

Tagging it as wontfix and keeping it open for now - in case you or 
someone else is able to educate be that I have somehow misunderstood.



>There are some problems on older Suns with yaird. No autodetection of SCSI/esp.
>With some additional hand made modifications to /etc/yaird/Default.cfg
>it behaves better then initramfs.
>Of course it is not connected to this bug report.

Please have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/341522 and post any 
additional comments or patches to 341522 at bugs.debian.org - thanks!


  - Jonas
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