[install-discuss] Re: Live Upgrade - "merged" keyword

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Thu Apr 26 08:20:42 PDT 2007


on Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:39:40PM -0700, Vasiliy wrote:
> Sure it is also looks like this to me. Merge keyword simple mean that this filesystem on parent system should not have entry in /etc/vfstab at all. In general LU creates ABE partition set and mount them all / on /a and all other under it, and then simple copy everything using 
> 
> "find / -print | cpio ..."
> 
> It is pretty simple idea and implementation, so when merge keyword processed it just ignore that entry, that file-system (it was initially done by me). And way it is handled in this case really looks like merge now treated as device name.
> 
> I think you may verify this by runing LU without merging - just to test what happen. If you have similar problem then it is legitimate to blame svm, but it is not clear right now that this is the case.

I confirm that this is the case; the same command works fine without
SVM.

Thanks,

Ceri
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