Re: [linux-lvm] vgchange doesn't enable found VGs

["Brian J. Murrell" <brian@interlinx.bc.ca>]

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On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 20:00 +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:30:30PM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> >     cache_dir = "/etc/lvm/cache"
> 
> The cache_dir must be *writeable*.

And persistent or just writable?

Interestingly enough, RHEL5.2's /etc/rwtab (the files and directories
that need to be made "magically" writable -- through bind mounting to
either persistent storage or tmpfs) has:

files   /etc/lvm/.cache

That's starting to look like a type methinks.

> If you're attempting to use read-only root, then move it somewhere else
> (is /var writeable? or make a ramfs) or delete that directory *and*
> change

Ahhh.  "a ramfs".  So persistence is not a requirement it seems.

b.


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