From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757710AbYIAKQR (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 06:16:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751904AbYIAKQF (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 06:16:05 -0400 Received: from pasmtpa.tele.dk ([80.160.77.114]:51852 "EHLO pasmtpA.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751657AbYIAKQE (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 06:16:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:15:43 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Alasdair G Kergon Cc: Tejun Heo , device-mapper development , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , lvm-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: 2.6.27-rc5-mmotm0829 - lvm issues at boot, possible disk_devt() related? Message-ID: <20080901101543.GL20055@kernel.dk> References: <4963.1220240176@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <48BBA0B0.5070309@kernel.org> <7045.1220260558@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20080901095651.GI15123@agk.fab.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080901095651.GI15123@agk.fab.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 01 2008, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:15:58AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:58:40 +0200, Tejun Heo said: > > > Yeah, I made a mistake converting two of them and devt lookup fails when > > > the disk is zero sized. Bartlomiej debugged the problem and posted a > > > patch and I followed up with an updated patch. It should be fine in the > > > next round. > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.next/2663 > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.next/2676 > > > If you're seeing other problems, please let me know. > > Confirming - 2.6.27-rc5-mmotm0829 plus the merge of the 2 above patches > > does find the LVM volumes and come up. Thanks for the clue.. :) > > I expect we'll need some patches to userspace lvm2 to support these extended > device numbers properly too... > > Alasdair (back from holiday) They'll be defaulting to off from now on, so it should not be a big worry. But Alan Brunelle did find that the "10-character limit in dm/lib/libdm-deptree is too small". -- Jens Axboe