[linux-lvm] SYLOG MESSAGES

[linux-lvm] SYLOG MESSAGES

[parkercj]

Hi,

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.

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 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????  The LVM program is built into my kernel not as a module
and my kernel is mostly monolithic except for a few networking and msdos
filesystem devices.

Acck ... here is my config before you ask! :)

RedHat Linux 2.2.5 #12 SMP ( Dual P200's MMX)
64 meg ram
LVM version 0.6 with the latest patch lvm_0.6-patch-15031999a.gz
and the usual stuff ... Sound, CDROM, 3com NIC  etc cetera...


The box has all of my partitions created using LVM in three volume groups
except for the root partition.. I need it to boot for now. The configuration
is strictly IDE. The only SCSI device is a 6 pack 4mm HP SureStore Dat tape
drive using an Adaptec 2120 card. It's the only device on the chain.

Other than these messages the box is solid ... I currently run the Linux
version of Oracle8 ... nothing heavy duty with the application yet. I'm
still poking around with some web and RDBMS application stuff.

Any ideas???


C.J.

Re: [linux-lvm] SYLOG MESSAGES

[Heinz Mauelshagen]

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 23:32:43 -0700, C.J. Parker
<cparker1@pacbell.net> 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.

<SNIP config...> 

Regards,
Heinz


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Re: [linux-lvm] SYLOG MESSAGES

[Luca Berra]

On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 11:32:43PM -0700, parkercj wrote:

<snip>
> 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
> 
<snip>
> 
> Any ideas???
> 
yes, put:
alias block-major-33 off
alias block-major-34 off
alias block-major-9 off
alias block-major-8 off
in /etc/conf.modules

L.

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