From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] is devfs required? Message-Id: <20020222102259.A16552@sistina.com> References: <20020221143602.F328@majestic.ukshells.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020221143602.F328@majestic.ukshells.co.uk>; from linux.lvm@codex.net on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:36:02PM +0000 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: Date: Fri Feb 22 03:25:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:36:02PM +0000, Vincent AE Scott wrote: > Hi there, > i've been tinkering with LVM, but i'm having some issues with it, and i > was wondering if anyone here could help shed some light for me? > > i'm using LVM on a 2.4.17-19mdk kernel patched up to 1.0.3 > it *appears* that when i boot up without devfs support, i frequently > cant create/extened/mount filesystems. but when i boot up with devfs > support it seems to work. > > is devfs required to use LVM? No, but in case you use devfs, you need to go with the long devfs device pathes. > > without it, ive seen lvcreate SEGV when attempting to create a new > volume. Hm. Seems to be more of a tool bug. Which tool version are you using? In case of 0.9.1 Beta something, you should update to 1.0.3, which we released last Monday. > > or are there any known problems with using LVM on an SMP host? i cant > think of anything else that might be causing these strange problems. > > oh, and FYI, it was setup up using 1.0.1-rc4ish That should be fine but as said, you could still run older tools which might be causing the SEGV. > > TIA, > -vince > > -- > PGP key: http://codex.net/pgp/pgp.asc > > Smash forehead on keyboard to continue... > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-