From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <36DFB4AF.3BE72568@ep-ag.com> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 11:40:47 +0100 From: Klaus Strebel MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problems with LVM 0.6 References: <36DEC203.C9CCD889@notes.seagate.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Steve Brueggeman Cc: linux-lvm@msede.com Hi Steve, Steve Brueggeman wrote: > > First off, I had trouble compiling the tools. I got a warning that > "LVM_BLK_MAJOR" was undeclared, when compiling > tools/lib/lvm_tab_get_free_blk_dev.c Seems to me, that your patch was not successfull. LVM_BLK_MAJOR is to be defined in $LINUX_SRC/include/linux/major.h. Look for a .rej file in that directory (btw. this should be done after every patch ;-)). The sequence in the INSTALL file should be changed: first patch the kernel sources, then build the tools. The other things is, that, if you apply the patch to a already patched source (ex. to update LVM0-5alpha to 0.6_also_alpha), the new module source is inserted to the beginning of the source file, both versions are in it and the compiler is the talking to you, telling you funny things ;-). Perhaps there should be upgrade-patches-from-xx-to-yy ? One very very heavy problem i ran in yesterday was, that the dynamic creation of the /dev/lvm device-file with devfs does not work in lvm-0.6 anymore (sorry, i didn't search why). So i have to create the /dev/lvm after loading the lvm-module before i can vgscan. Btw. what are the files vgscan creates in /etc are used for. Is it possible to suppress creation (or even rw-access) to these files if they already exist? Background is, that i have to fsck and remount,rw my root-fs before i can use lvm. Is that really neccessary? But, after all that criticism, cheers for this software! It is what i waited for! Let`s get it stable quickly! Ciao Klaus -- Klaus Strebel stb@ep-ag.com EIGNER + PARTNER AG - The Engineering Warehouse Company - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In Heaven there will be no DOS, no Intel, and above all, no Bill Gates.