[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

[Uli Armbruster]

* Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> [03.02.2010 11:12]:
> Am 03.02.2010 10:32, schrieb Uli Armbruster:
> > uresume is needed for uswsusp (from [community])
> 
> Good to know. This hook used glibc anyway, so there is no adjustment
> needed to the new initramfs. Less work for me.
> 
> > In the wiki, it says that all of these udev rules don't work, because
> > there's no program called vol_id anymore. But it worked for me, not
> > really sure why. Now with kill-klibc udev isn't able to detect the
> > volume name, so it always mounts at /media/sdb1 or something like
> > that. I'm really not sure, how this is related neither. Right now I
> > rather think it is strange that it worked before..
> 
> It seems those rules used /lib/initcpio/udev/vol_id because
> /lib/udev/vol_id was gone for a while. But now there is no klibc-udev
> any more, vol_id has been deprecated for some time.
> 
> You need to use blkid to do this now. "blkid -o udev -p ..." will have
> an output compatible to vol_id, but the usage is probably a little
> different. See /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules for
> examples on how blkid is used instead of vol_id, then the udev rules in
> the wiki can be easily adjusted to work again.
> blkid is in any way superior to vol_id, it has more and better
> filesystem support and is updated more frequently. I hope you can
> correct the wiki after you've figured out the details, I would guess it
> is not very difficult.
> 

Cool, thanks a lot! I'll do some testing with blkid, in case I succeed I'll adjust the wiki