Comment 28 for bug 67299

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Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione) wrote : Re: [Bug 67299] Re: mdadm causes boot to hang for 4 minutes

Oliver Payne wrote:
> On 30/11/06, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto <email address hidden> wrote:
>> Are you running RAID over LVM?
>
> Yes.

Ok.. this change totally the issue. lvm and evms are always executed after mdadm.

>
>> and are you actually using evms for your disk management for real?
>
> Yes, I use evms for managing my filesystems. All my non-root
> filesystems are lvm volumes. I also have a backup filesystem, which
> is RAID1 built from two lvm volumes. This is what's causing the
> problems.
>
> Thanks for your efforts,

I will upload mdadm now to solve the timeout issue for all the others but i will
need some more help from you to solve your problem in edgy. The issue will be
gone totally in feisty that will use a new design that will not require to rely
on any kind of initramfs scripts.

Fabio

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