RSBAC + initrd ?

From: Sebastian Andersson <bofh@diegeekdie.com>
Subject: RSBAC + initrd ?
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:45:24 +0200

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I've got two computers connected to a disk cabinet (JBOD type).
Both computers are identically installed, except that they start
different services and mount different disks. In case of a
problem with one of the computers, it should be possible to
failover to the other computer.

Since both computers can be unplugged from the disk cabinet at
any time, different numbers of disks can be seen at each reboot and
therefor I would like to use LVM and only mount logical partitions.
For LVM to work, it needs to boot from an initrd partition so it can
run vgscan to find the available disks and then find the real
root partition.

Unfortunaly this doesn't seem to work with RSBAC. It wants to access
its /rsbac partition on the root device and that would be the
initrd device. Is there a way to make RSBAC delay its usage of /rsbac ?

I thought of using disklabels instead, but I want to use reiserfs
to avoid lengthy fscks and it has no support for disklables.

/Sebastian
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