Having observed all the ranting, I thought I would try systemd on a laptop. It 
actually seems to work quite well and it is a lot faster. However I am having 
trouble getting my LVM partitions mounted. I installed the LVM service unit 
from the Gentoo Wiki but it never completes, timing-out on a job that mounts 
/var. The VG is actually created by an initramfs and when systemd dumps you 
out to the emergency shell you can use lvs to see the volumes, /dev/mapper has 
all the correct devices and "dmsetup ls" shows the LVs. In fact, everything 
appears as it should, the partitions just don't get mounted. I circumvented 
this by putting "mount -a" in the lvm.service unit, which then completes and 
the mount jobs time-out. Everything seems to be OK but it is a bit of a 
kludge. One thing I notice is:

# udevadm info -p /dev/mapper/vg00-rootfs -q all
syspath not found

Udev seems not to know about the LVs. Any ideas?

TIA
-Robin
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Robin Atwood.

"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
 Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
         from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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