From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:53:22 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] devfs Message-ID: <20001214165322.A22656@caldera.de> References: <0012132117412P.00826@lyta> <20001214164152.A1886@colombina.comedia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001214164152.A1886@colombina.comedia.it>; from bluca@comedia.it on Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:41:53PM +0100 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Luca Berra , Linux-LVM@sistina.com On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 04:41:53PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:17:41PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > It appears that devfs is not supported in LVM at this time (but I can't be > > certain because I haven't got it going properly yet). What are the plans for > > devfs support? > > this is not exact, there is some devfs support in lvm 0.9, or > 0.8 in kernels >= 2.4.0-test8, but it does not work!!! > > i had to patch the lvm tools so they don't remove the /dev/ directory > > also from my brief testing it seems that devfs tries to create the > /dev/vg/group node when activating the vg (while this should be done > during vgscan), but does not create the lv defice files. Right - you have to apply _two_ patches for the userlevel. I had a system running devfs and LVM for a while but than switched back to traditional /dev for other reasons. Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.