From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i17MsKa21840 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 17:54:20 -0500 Received: from mail.werbeagentur-aufwind.de (websrv.werbeagentur-aufwind.de [213.239.197.241]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i17MsJb29279 for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 17:54:19 -0500 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] root on lvm2 on raid5 problem... kernel 2.6.x From: Christophe Saout In-Reply-To: <20040207223426.Y1170@uk.sistina.com> References: <253458D17524064C996F67C97116BF880659D9@Oscar-5.north.mcld.net> <20040207223426.Y1170@uk.sistina.com> Message-Id: <1076194457.32307.3.camel@leto.cs.pocnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sat Feb 7 17:53:23 2004 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Am Sa, den 07.02.2004 schrieb linux-lvm-admin@redhat.com um 23:34: > Some more tips that might be useful: > dmsetup vgmknodes: creates /dev/mapper directories entries for active devices I think you meant "dmsetup mknodes". :-) > > From the initrd image, however, vgchange is unable to activate > > the volumes. > If it's read-only, vgscan/vgchange --ignorelockingfailure What's also useful with a dynamic /dev (like mounted on ramfs with udev) on a read-only root filesystem (I'm doing this here in the early system boot rc when /dev is populated even before the filesystem checking and mounting begins): lvm vgscan --mknodes --ignorelockingfailure