From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753289AbXDIOIH (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:08:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753300AbXDIOIH (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:08:07 -0400 Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.44]:53456 "EHLO vms044pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753289AbXDIOIG (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:08:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:07:58 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: I give up To: LKML Message-id: <200704091007.58535.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: Organization? very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greetings Guys & Dolls; I give up, I'm whupped. When I installed FC6, I let it use LVM2 to handle the disks because I was tired of fighting with the most broken, nasty, evil disk partitioner ever dreamed up, disk druid. I personally think that abomination was written by an M$ plant, specifically to poison users against linux. Now the 64k$ question: While running with LVM2 managed disks, is it possible to run without dm_mod, the device-mapper? If so, please tell me how to achieve this. I rebooted last night, from 2.6.21-rc6 to 2.6.21-rc6 and for some reason device-mapper went from #252 (cat /proc/devices) to #254, and has also been seen at #253 in addition to the temporary address of #238 where it was before that patch was reverted for 2.6.21-rc6 Anytime this changes, the device numbers in a stat report change, and tar thinks its all new & restarts everything on a 45GB system from a level 0. My vtape setup only has room for 8.5GB per vtape, so the catchup time is many days. I can speed that up by temporarily making the vtape bigger in my amanda.conf, but now the disk itself that the vtapes are on is at 96% and will not tolerate another such catchup run. So I'm pleading for either a stable, known address for device-mapper, or a workaround that will immunize tar against its apparently uncontrolled wanderings. Please, pretty please, with sugar and cream in it even, please, give some stability to this situation.... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) George Washington was first in war, first in peace -- and the first to have his birthday juggled to make a long weekend. -- Ashley Cooper