From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx05.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.9]) by int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8IJPI6Z025762 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:25:18 -0400 Received: from ns3.lanforge.com (mail.candelatech.com [208.74.158.172]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8IJP4Aq030120 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:25:04 -0400 Received: from [192.168.100.195] (firewall.candelatech.com [70.89.124.249]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns3.lanforge.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8IJP28E013491 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:25:03 -0700 Message-ID: <4AB3DE8E.9080301@candelatech.com> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:25:02 -0700 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] Question on compatibility with 2.6.31 kernel. Reply-To: 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@redhat.com Hello! I recently tried to boot 2.6.31 on Fedora 8, and it couldn't find the volume groups. The same kernel works fine on F11. Someone on LKML said they had similar problems on an old Debian Etch system and to fix it they installed a new version of lvm2 and put that in the initrd. I am trying to package a general purpose 2.6.31, and part of the install logic is to run mkinitrd on the end-user's system, so it will be a big pain to also require users to install a non-standard lvm for their platform. So, does anyone have any ideas about what incompatibily I might be hitting, and perhaps have some ideas on how to fix it in the kernel so that new kernels will boot with older lvm installs? Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com