From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx2.redhat.com (mx2.redhat.com [10.255.15.25]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j59CtEP09484 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 08:55:14 -0400 Received: from mail.funsoft.com ([71.129.27.18]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j59DQdHm019505 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 09:26:40 -0400 Received: from [192.168.5.27] (funsoft.funsoft.com [192.168.11.1]) by mail.funsoft.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j59Csqf14426 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 05:54:53 -0700 Message-ID: <42A83B85.6060208@funsoft.com> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 08:52:21 -0400 From: Gary Eheman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] Raw device usage with LVM2 question Reply-To: eheman@funsoft.com, LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Linux-lvm I am moving some LVM1 use to a system with LVM2. Under LVM1, I was creating my own /dev/raw device nodes with mknod and would use the raw command to point my raw devices at a logical volume. The raw command would be issued to link each of my created /dev/raw/ devices to "/dev/volume-group-name/logical-volume-name" With LVM2, it appears that "/dev/volume-group-name/logical-volume-name" is a symbolic link to /dev/mapper/volumegroupname-logical-volume-name. Should my raw device be pointing to the same thing (now a symlink under LVM2) as under LVM1? Or should I change the raw command to point my /dev/raw device to the /dev/mapper/ device? I am using SuSE 9.3 Pro, if it matters. -- Gary Eheman Fundamental Software, Inc. http://www.funsoft.com