On 25/04/17 04:25 AM, L A Walsh wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
There a lot of customization options if you are willing to explore and experiment.
More to the point, if you do a 'standard' install from the DVD you'll have a system on which you have a non-zero initrd, can run lsinitrd, can customise the dracut config for when you rebuild the kernel ...
---- I didn't want to customize things. I just wanted a working system to come up and go from there.
I've admitted that I find many of your posts confusing, and I'll admit maybe I'm confused here too, but this isn't what I'm concluding. You want to use YaST to configure system but you also wan to do thin pool stuff. I don't call that 'standard. As far as I'm concerned a 'basic working system' is minimalist. Once you have that working you add, using other SPECIFIC tools for that purpose - not necessary YaST, the features and facilities you want. Doing this, as I have done, at the command line, rather than the "hidden mechanism" of YaST, does require more understanding but then offers a higher degree of confidence. Perhaps, Linda, you're so used to building a highly customized system under other circumstances that you are, in this case, unwittingly complicating this basic install. I don't know. I'm not looking over your shoulder, noting your every keystroke and mouse gesture. I can only hypothesise based on what you report and what you're reporting is that it doesn't work for you. It, being a basic install, works for others. I don't know what you're doing wrong. Maybe you doing it right and there's something else, some precursor, something extra that makes it different in your case. I don't now: perhaps you have a psychic DVD that 'knows' you hate "sysd" and hence refuses to work for you. I'm sad to say that I know people who might actually believe that a possibility :-(
That 10-15s includes mounting of LVM-based volumes of about about 20-30TB of storage. All of it is 'rotating rust' as you phrase it, w/99% of it being 7.2K SATA's.
Unless it's a single FS that is being FSCK'd and square-law applies then the issue is the number of (sequential) FSCKs being done. If those are RAID/stripe LVs/FSs then that's just going to speed FSCKs up. Mounting without FSCK is going to be a LOT faster. I've set up my systemd mounts to be pedantic about FSCK and settling on every boot. Since my booting is done in parallel with my getting a cup of coffee (see joke about the fighter jock and the transport pilot) I'm not concerned bout shaving seconds. Perhaps if I was bringing up a Google-sized farm it would be different...
I've never tweaked or built an initrd. It's not something I've ever really needed.
Yes, I understand that. You've never used the initrd method. But if you're doing a regular install from the DVD then you're ending up with a initrd method system. I think the problem you're having is that somewhere along the line you're fighting it, or doing things that are "common sense" to you in the context of the initrd-lessles system that you are familiar with but are not in this different context. Just a guess. As I say, I'm not looking over your shoulder watching every keystroke and mouse gesture. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org