From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm/devfs bug? From: rich turner In-Reply-To: <20030409072130.GD1366@tykepenguin.com> References: <1049829705.2312.16.camel@rich> <20030408204334.GD22951@percy.comedia.it> <1049836943.7411.19.camel@rich> <20030409072130.GD1366@tykepenguin.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1049932652.7946.4.camel@rich-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Apr 9 18:58:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com i dont completely agree with that because even when i use a kernel that does not have devfs i still get the same symptoms. even though /proc/partitions does not have a partition for a disk pvcreate still complains that there is one. pvcreate must be looking someplace else or there is a bug within lvm. now, if i create a pv within a partition there are no complaints, lvm will continue normally. it appears to only happen when i want to create a pv on the entire disk. why does pvcreate think there is a partition when there clearly isnt one? On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 00:21, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:22:23PM -0700, Rich Turner wrote: > > even though devfs is compiled in the kernel it actually is not mounted > > at this time. i have tried it using devfs long names also with no > > success. > > If devfs is in the kernel you MUST have it mounted for LVM. It's to do with the > interaction between /proc/partitions and LVM. > > > > patrick > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/