From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199904171108.AA17853@mailgate1b.telekom.de> From: Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] SYLOG MESSAGES Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 13:06:55 METDST In-Reply-To: <000d01be889c$1a9f8450$1401a6c0@aloha.lc.ca.org>; from "parkercj" at Apr 16, 99 11:32 pm Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cparker1@pacbell.net Cc: mge@ts1.ez-darmstadt.telekom.de, linux-lvm@msede.com On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 23:32:43 -0700, C.J. Parker wrote: > > This is a great feature for Linux and looong overdue. I'm usually using some > form of volume management be it Dec OSF Volume Manager, Solaris's Veritas > really DEC's version of a.k.a Veritas) , IBM's AIX ( really great product) > , and even HP's LVM ( which can be tricky without patches). This software is > closer to HP's implementation than the others I usually deal with. Yes, i like HPs for quite a lot of years ;*) > > I only have one small sniggling problem. Whenever I issue any type of "pv" > or "vg" command I see a number of the following messages in my syslog file: > > > Apr 16 23:16:11 sabrina modprobe: can't locate module block-major-33 > Apr 16 23:16:11 sabrina last message repeated 5 times > Apr 16 23:16:11 sabrina modprobe: can't locate module block-major-34 > Apr 16 23:16:11 sabrina last message repeated 5 times > Apr 16 23:16:11 sabrina modprobe: can't locate module block-major-9 > Apr 16 23:16:12 sabrina last message repeated 9 times > Apr 16 23:16:12 sabrina modprobe: can't locate module block-major-8 > This is no severe problem. > > This doesn't happen with any of the "lv" commands, but I'm keeping my eyes > open for anything strange. Am I missing something in my module > configuration???? Your modprobe config seems to contain active entries for the above majors and a LVM library function called by some LVM command (pvscan for eg.) scans all disk/MD majors to find online disks/MDs/PVs. Regards, Heinz -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Systemmanagement C/S Deutsche Telekom AG Entwicklungszentrum Darmstadt Heinz Mauelshagen Otto-Roehm-Strasse 71c Senior Systems Engineer Postfach 10 05 41 64205 Darmstadt mge@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de Germany +49 6151 886-425 FAX-386 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-