From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200103130059.f2D0xsJ01176@webber.adilger.int> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problem with vgscan/ vgcfgrestore In-Reply-To: from Daniel E Whicker at "Mar 12, 2001 06:16:49 pm" Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:59:54 -0700 (MST) 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: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Daniel Whiker writes: > Thanks for helping. I did in fact have devfs compiled in and mounted to an > alternative path. Currently devfs and LVM don't work well together, especially if it is not mounted on /dev. My patch fixes a small part of this, but it is still safer to simply configure devfs out of the kernel when using LVM, until your system is working properly. > Beyond that, everything is pretty vanilla. I'm rebuilding the OS on that > system at the moment, but as soon as I'm done, I'll get 2.4.2 with LVM > .9.1b5 and your patch installed and see how it goes from there. In the > meantime, is there any way of restoring the "HM" magic to the PVs > nondestructively? I think this may have been caused by the devfs strangeness. Start out with devfs out of the kernel entirely, and go from there. I don't think 2.4.2 will help you. You need to apply an LVM kernel patch anyways. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert