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On Friday 04 November 2005 21.35, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> Dan Johansson wrote: |
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> >I'm trying to setup a new Linux-server with an on board RAID-controller |
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> >(Promise PDC20265 FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100). Now everything goes well |
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> > until I try to do a pvcreate on one of the raid-partitions, this is the |
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> > output I get: |
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> ># pvcreate /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4 |
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> > Device /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4 not found. |
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> > |
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> >But the device-file is there (along with the other partitions). |
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> > |
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> ># ll /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf* |
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> >brw------- 1 root root 253, 7 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf |
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> >brw------- 1 root root 253, 8 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf1 |
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> >brw------- 1 root root 253, 9 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf2 |
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> >brw------- 1 root root 253, 10 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf3 |
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> >brw------- 1 root root 253, 11 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4 |
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> |
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> I suspect the devices are being filtered. Take a look at |
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> /etc/lvm/lvm.conf, and try running pvcreate with "-vv" to see how it is |
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> probing the devices. You might need to add a 'filter = [ a/pdc_*/" ]' |
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> option to lvm.conf. |
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I got a tip on the LVM mailinglist and now it works. I had to change my lvm2 |
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"devices" configuration in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf to include: |
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types = [ "device-mapper", 254 ] |
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Regards, |
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Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> |
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