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Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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>Hi, Dan. |
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>On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 02:34:16PM +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: |
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>> Hello List, |
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>> What is the status of using mdev (instead the ever "growing" udev) |
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>> together with lvm2? Reason for my question is that at |
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>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev it says " One beta tester reports |
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>> getting close with lvm2, but it's not there yet.". |
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>I think that beta tester was me. I had lvm2 partitions running under |
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>mdev without problems. (They were also RAID-1, just for completion's |
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>sake.) |
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>The only change I had to make was to my /etc/fstab. Where I previously |
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>had: |
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> /dev/vg/usr /usr <options> |
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>under udev, I then needed |
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> /dev/mapper/vg-usr /usr <options> |
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>instead. mdev failed to create the /dev/vg directory. With this |
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>change, |
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>my system worked quite happily. Sadly, I went back to udev when |
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>xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0 started depending on udev, back in June last |
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>year. |
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>> Regards, |
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>> -- |
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>> Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> |
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>> *************************************************** |
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>> This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! |
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>> *************************************************** |
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>-- |
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>Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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LVM can be configured to double-check udev to make sure all the /dev entries are done correctly. |
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By default this is not switched on. |
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See /etc/lvm/lvm.conf |
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It might solve that part. It solves some udev issues on one of my systems where the links are not handled correctly by udev for snapshots. |
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Joost |
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