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From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm/devfs bug?
Date: Tue Apr  8 15:43:02 2003	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030408204334.GD22951@percy.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1049829705.2312.16.camel@rich>

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:21:45PM -0700, Rich Turner wrote:
>i am able to confirm that /proc/partitions does not have a partition
>entry for the disk but pvcreate still fails. i am using a devfs kernel
>so i thought there might be some strange behavior between lvm and devfs.
>is there a fix or known issues regarding lvm and devfs?
>
if you have devfs you should use the devfs long mane to reference your pv
eg: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
as to why the error message is misleading i would not say, lvm1 tools are
very buggy wrt the handling of device names.

L.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-08 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-08 14:22 [linux-lvm] lvm/devfs bug? Rich Turner
2003-04-08 14:33 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2003-04-08 15:06   ` rich turner
2003-04-08 15:43 ` Luca Berra [this message]
2003-04-08 16:22   ` Rich Turner
2003-04-08 16:57     ` Rich Turner
2003-04-09  2:21     ` Patrick Caulfield
2003-04-09 18:58       ` rich turner
2003-04-10 13:08         ` rich turner
2003-04-10 14:58           ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-04-10 16:10             ` rich turner
2003-04-10 16:22           ` Luca Berra

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