Re: LVM and LVM2 support in Grub

[Dag Wieers]

On Fri, 30 May 2008, Robert Millan wrote:

> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:52:24PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Today I met Alasdair Kergon again and Tim brought up the question when we
> > can expect LVM support in Grub. This is a feature that is now missing for
> > some time and a lot of people are waiting for this.
>
> LVM is already supported, although it's a bit buggy and some rare use cases
> don't work well yet.
>
> If you find bugs, reports are welcome.  As for unsupported use case, it doesn't
> work if you're booting from the LVM device itself.  We already know why this
> happens, but nobody had time to fix it (help is welcome, I can give more
> details if desired).

I asked the question because Alasdair mentioned that the current 
implementation doesn't use the existing LVM framework and he would prefer 
that, instead of having the functionality as a whole included in Grub, it 
relies on the LVM infrastructure that is maintained by the LVM developers.
And as a result would be a much more complete (and 
maintained) implementation than is currently offered.

To me it looks like it could just compile and link against the LVM API. 
That would certainly provide for a much better implementation than the 
current as it would be maintained by the LVM developers directly.

Now, I much more prefer Alasdair to join the discussion as I am just an 
incapable user :-) but since we are at LinuxTag it may take some time.

I promised I would ignite the discussion, so my job is over ;-)
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