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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm metadata
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Date: Tue Nov 11 12:08:01 2003
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To: Benoit <benoit.peccatte@enst-bretagne.fr>
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:44:36AM +0100, Benoit wrote:
>You may ask why. Then is my second question, why aren't vgscan and vgchange 
>implemented in kernel and called at boot time ? This would make us be able to 
>consider logical volumes as standard partitions and mount them easily, even 
>as /
because lvm tools are too big and complex to go into kernel space,
they are better into userspace and invoked via initrd if you want to
use lvm root.

L.

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