Re: [OSR-devel] initrd cleanup

[Mark H. <hla...@at...>]

On Friday 12 October 2007 10:37:22 Gordan Bobic wrote:
> >>> I'm figuring that just adding rm -rf /lib/modules would help. I have
> >>> just added this to clean_initrd function. I'll have a look at what else
> >>> can be pruned after the GFS root is mounted.
> >>
> >> Hmm, this doesn't appear to have worked. I think it happens too late.
> >> I'd need to delete these before the new chroot is fired up. Any
> >> suggestion on where would be a good time to put this?
> >
> > The chroot environment is builded in
> > etc/rhel{4,5}/boot-lib.sh:create_chroot() There might be a more
> > intelligent way to create the chroot environment ;-)
>
> I think there may be a path issue here. What is the absolute path of
> /lib/modules in the initrd? I told it to mv /lib/modules /lib/modules2,
> and this doesn't appear to have happened in either the initrd nor in the
> real GFS root. :-/
>

during the initrd init process, a new chroot environment is build to hold the 
cluster services itsself. This has to be done to solve the chicken-egg 
problem with rootfs depending on userspace cluster services.

The new chroot environment ist created in the function create_chroot.
The default path for the chroot environment is /var/comoonics/chroot.

Mark