also sprach Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.net> [2011.03.07.1316 
+0100]:
> Some time ago I've started writing a wiki
> (http://wiki.debian.org/AdvancedStartupShutdownWithMultilayeredBlockDevices)
> which should cover all kinds of problems and potential solutions,
> regarding the boot/shutdown process when multiple block-dev layers
> are in use.

This looks interesting, but the issue is complex, and at least to
me, the benefits are not clear.

> Unfortunately, little interest was shown by the concerned people
> within Debian... so this got basically stalled (or dead).

(I never found out about this until now)

> Nevertheless a _very_ rough solution should be to build up kind of
> a tree of all block devices, and in the end take every child nodes
> below the root-fs and resume-devices.

It's just very brittle and thus dangerous. Adding a few kilobytes to
the initramfs is a lesser concern, isn't it?

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