update system image with lvm2 package and add lvm option into armbian-install script

[Frédéric From France]

Hi, 

 

Could you please:

• update the kernel image to include the 'lvm2' package, load the required modules at boot,
• upgrade armbian-install script to propose an option in the dialog menu to install the root file system on a volume group (VG) and logical volume (LV) that you will create, instead of directly on a primary disk partition?

 

Please, at least if you are interested or not by this feature can you let a comment?

 

Your feedback will help!

 

Sincerely, 

 

Frederic

Edited September 7, 2023 by Frédéric From France
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[Igor]

On 9/7/2023 at 2:46 AM, Frédéric From France said:

if you are interested

We are interested for features expansions and improvements. Always  Especially if that helps more people. But  as we are small and overloaded ... we can only assist best effort way with hints, reviewing the code, ...

 

Those are possibly related tickets that also waits for attention:

• https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1592
• https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1881
• https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-1900

and might be addressed on the way.

 

We had a wish / dream to refactor this script, but its in fact quite a complex problem due to many different boot scenarios, exceptions, links with build framework. On top of general Linux filesystems complexity such as this.