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From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LV only detected when using "lvscan -D" on amd64 kernel
Date: Mon Oct 27 09:09:01 2003	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031027160955.M848@sistina.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F9D327C.6020102@elitedvb.net>; from tmbinc@elitedvb.net on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:58:04PM +0100

On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:58:04PM +0100, Felix Domke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >User space parses and passes it via ioctls to the kernel.
> >Please look at lvm.h for the ioctls defined and the structures involved.
> >Grep the LVM1 library source in tools/lib/ for "ioctl" to get you started.
> >  
> >
> Where exactly is the LV information passed to the kernel? is it 
> "LV_CREATE"?

Yes.

> 
> The kernel seems to don't know the LV, the LV_STATUS_BYINDEX on the 
> "/dev/fast/group" returns "No such device or address" (ENXIO) for each 
> index, including 0, which should be the LV in question.
> 
> It looks as "lvm_do_lv_status_byindex" in the kernel returns -ENXIO 
> because vg_ptr->lv[lv_status_byindex_req.lv_index] is zero. Where is the 
> point where this array is written? I only found LV_CREATE, but that's 
> only called in vgimport, vgmerge and lvcreate, so it looks as there is 

See lvm_do_vg_create() and lvm_do_lv_create() functions in the driver.

> another place.
> 
> 
> Can you point me in the direction?
> 
> 
> Felix
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
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> read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

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Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-27  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-24 11:10 [linux-lvm] LV only detected when using "lvscan -D" on amd64 kernel Felix Domke
2003-10-25  2:09 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2003-10-26 11:54   ` Felix Domke
2003-10-27  5:00     ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2003-10-27  8:55       ` Felix Domke
2003-10-27  9:09         ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen [this message]
2003-10-27  9:37           ` Felix Domke
2003-10-28  3:36             ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen

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