Re: [linux-lvm] Problems: reiserfs lvm as /

[Peter Kirk <pwk.linuxfan@gmx.de>]

Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2001 22:38 schrieben Sie:
> Peter Kirk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to LVM, and I ran into some problems.
> > First thing I did, was to setup LVM within the SuSE7.1 setup tools, which
> > worked out fine.
> > /boot is not on LVM, ext2fs
> > swap is not on LVM
> > LVM:
> >         /       [reiserfs]
> >         /usr    [reiserfs]
> >         /home   [reiserfs]
> >
> > I have too disks, so I set the strip option to two, to get better
> > performance. Now I want to compile a new kernel (2.4.4), and I cannot get
> > lvm working with it. Since root is on LVM I need to do this
> > lvmcreate_initrd stuff, but it does not work ! I get:
> >
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 file system).
>
>                      ^^^^
>
> What a hell ext2fs does with your reiserfs filesystem??
> Do you have compiled reiser as a module or in kernel?
> Do you have included and loaded reiserfs from your initrd
> if it is a module?
> Why in a case when your root is on reiserfs, you included
> ext2 in kernel?
>
ext2fs and reiserfs are built into the Kernel, as it always worked, until I 
got LVM. I think there is some stuff in the Kernel Config missing, that I 
should have - perhaps initial RAM disk stuff ? What do I need for that ?

> Ummm... :)
>
> > attempt to access beyond end of device
> > 01:00: rw=0, want=4612, limit=4096
>
> Doh!  Ext2 code should check more carefully if it
> mounted (or attempted to) ext2 fs -- what a bizzare,
> ext2 code treats reiserfs as ext2fs!..
>
> Regards,
>  Michael.
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