Hi, Am 31.03.2015 um 16:06 schrieb James Trimbee:
I wondered about kernel support for LVM, but I've never got it to work without an initramfs; or software RAID for that matter. Without /etc/mdadm.conf (usually handled within the initramfs) I don't know how the Kernel knows to assemble the array - does it just use drive metadata? Yes, it's in some kind of id in the partition table:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdd1 2048 10487807 10485760 5G 83 Linux /dev/sdd2 10487808 976773167 966285360 460.8G fd Linux raid autodetect and then the md-superblock knows the rest (i.e., which name the raid has, which type, etc.). ... there's also "8e Linux LVM", so maybe this works, too. Personally I never felt the need for lvm, and probably won't test it in the near future greetings, Erich