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From: Patrick Caulfield <caulfield@sistina.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm/devfs bug?
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:22:23PM -0700, Rich Turner wrote:
> even though devfs is compiled in the kernel it actually is not mounted
> at this time. i have tried it using devfs long names also with no
> success.

If devfs is in the kernel you MUST have it mounted for LVM. It's to do with the
interaction between /proc/partitions and LVM.



patrick