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On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 10:59:30 PM Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> On Mar 14, 2012 10:30 PM, "Michael Mol" <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> |
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> wrote: |
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> > > Or asked another way - |
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> > > |
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> > > Why is LVM2 incapable od using mdev? |
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> Alan has explained that LVM2 actually is able to run under mdev, and he's |
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> investigating if there's any LVM2 feature that is not available. |
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> So far, there's none, and I'm strongly suspicious that it's a case of |
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> missing dev symlinks that prevented LVM2 to work; something later on the |
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> "default" runlevel then created the proper dev entries that allow LVM2 to |
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> work. |
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> If that is the case -- which I strongly suspect -- then one can use mdev's |
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> built-in ability to rename/move a device + create a symlink [1] |
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> [1] |
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> https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/ZeptoOS/trunk/BGP/packages/busybox/src/docs/md |
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> ev.txt |
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I don't have the time to test this yet, but I am definitely planning on trying |
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mdev. Especially because I don't like the direction udev is going. |
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Auto-creation of /dev entries. Yes, very usefull |
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Renaming devices according to some simple rules. Yes, very usefull. |
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Auto-starting programs when a device is added. Great, when are we getting |
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"autostart" support for CDs and USB-keys and under which user-account will |
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these be executed? |
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This system is mostly used by me, but my wife also uses it sometimes. Even |
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when I leave a desktop-session active. She simply starts a second one. |
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If this is implemented, will the autostart-script run under my account, my |
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wifes, or *shudder* as root? |
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Walt, keep up the good work. I need LVM to work on the server, once we have |
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confirmed it does work and how to configure mdev to work with it, I'll start |
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to switch my servers. |
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> > The presumption is that lvm's dependent binaries would be found |
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> > somewhere under a mount point other than / (such as /usr), which gives |
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> > you a chicken-and-egg problem if mounting that mount point requires |
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> > lvm. |
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> Uh... mounting filesystems is not the purview of {u,m}dev... |
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...yet.... ;) |
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That is, untill someone comes up with the "clever" idea of shoving an |
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automounter into udev. (Will it then also auto-unmount when I want my CD |
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back?) |
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