From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] determing lvm support
Date: Sat Dec 20 07:37:01 2003 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031220133541.GF24434@percy.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031220123023.H21022@uk.sistina.com>
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:30:23PM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:47:18PM -0800, Rich Turner wrote:
>> lvm2:
>> look for "vgcreate" command and
>Better to check for the new 'lvm' base command: other commands are
>links to it: check that running 'lvm version' produces complete output.
>That will also confirm that device-mapper is available in the live
>kernel and that /dev/mapper/control is set up correctly.
>(See device-mapper/scripts/devmap_mknod.sh)
>
Besides that is there any way to reliably check if dm is loaded from a
c program, besides calling dm_task_run(), which is noisy if the driver
is not loaded? I don't want the user to see an error if she's not
running device-mapper.
it the moment i try to open dm_dir()/control, is that ok?
L.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-20 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-19 18:49 [linux-lvm] determing lvm support Rich Turner
2003-12-20 6:31 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2003-12-20 7:37 ` Luca Berra [this message]
2003-12-20 17:32 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2003-12-21 2:09 ` Luca Berra
2003-12-21 10:02 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2003-12-22 10:05 ` Rich Turner
2003-12-22 18:08 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2003-12-20 12:55 ` Micah Anderson
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