lvm is needed by (installed) mkinitrd-3.5.14-1

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Feb 18 05:06:46 UTC 2004


Jim Popovitch (jimpop at yahoo.com) said: 
> Ok, but since mkinitrd is a requirement (in userland) to build an initrd
> image prior to booting, why force lvm on all other non-lvm users just to
> not inconvenience the few lvm users?

It's not 'to not inconvenience them', it's 'to keep their systems
functional'. There's a slight difference.

> How long before 'rpm -q --whatrequires filesystem' equals 'rpm -qa' ? 
> After all, everything resides on the filesystem. ;)

And this would affect you how?

(Everything does require filesystem transitively, FWIW.)

Bill





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