Dapper -> Edgy upgrade problem

[Jerry Haltom]

I'm unable to boot from my EVMS volume after this change. Hangs up in
the initramfs on "waiting for Root file system."

Helpful info:

root at kyoto:/# vol_id /dev/vg0/root --export
ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
ID_FS_TYPE=xfs
ID_FS_VERSION=
ID_FS_UUID=e336cc39-9ff1-4135-9c2b-2cd7f976a003
ID_FS_LABEL=root
ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=root
root at kyoto:/# vol_id /dev/evms/root --export
ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem
ID_FS_TYPE=xfs
ID_FS_VERSION=
ID_FS_UUID=e336cc39-9ff1-4135-9c2b-2cd7f976a003
ID_FS_LABEL=root
ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=root


Not sure how the initramfs should figure this out. ;)


On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 03:48 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:16:31PM -0500, Alex Mauer wrote:
> > Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > 
> > > I'd expect the issues to be the same with RAID regardless of whether you use
> > > the UUID or label; in either case they'll be the same.  
> > 
> > For sure; that was intended as a totally distinct point; I didn't mean
> > to imply that using a label instead of a UUID would help that situation.
> > 
> > > This is an important
> > > test case, though, and we'd appreciate your help in ensuring that our
> > > solution gets it right.
> > 
> > And you'll get it.
> > 
> > Should I add this consideration to LibAtaForAtaDisks?  The only other
> > semi-relevant spot seems to be ProbeForRootFilesystem; I'm not sure that
> > that is likely to be reviewed by those involved in the switch to UUID
> > though.  I could also clean up that page a bit and make it a redirect to
> > SwitchToUUID or something similar.  Does this sound good, or is there a
> > more appropriate and already-existing place to put it to improve the
> > chances of being reviewed by implementors?
> > 
> > I see that the ProbeForRootFilesystem page says "LABEL are more prone to
> > clashing and this idea has been discarded at BOF" according to
> > FabioMassimoDiNitto; this is disappointing, as labels are far more
> > user-friendly.
> 
> This change has now landed in Edgy; is it doing the right thing for you?
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz
>