Re: [PATCH 000 of 5] md: Introduction

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:54:20PM +0200, Ville Herva wrote:
> If you really want the rest of us to convert from md to lvm, you should
> perhaps give some attention to thee brittle userland (scripts and and
> binaries).

If you do not like the LVM userland, you might want to try the EVMS userland,
which uses the same kernel code and (mostly) the same on-disk formats, but
has a different front-end.

> It is very tedious to have to debug a production system for a few hours in
> order to get the rootfs mounted after each kernel update. 

This sounds a bit like an issue with your distribution, which should normally
fix initrd/initramfs issues for you.

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