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On Apr 6, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: |
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> Hi list! |
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> I'm having a bit of a problem with LVM2 on Gentoo. See, I have a |
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> computer with a couple of hard drives in an LVM, and when it boots, I |
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> can see it loading the driver modules for the controller cards |
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> properly |
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> (I've added them to /etc/modules.autoload.d), but then when it |
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> comes to |
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> initializing the LVM, it complains that it cannot find all the PVs to |
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> initialize the VG. In fact, it complains about _all_ the PVs, as |
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> though |
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> it found none. |
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> Later, when the system is booted, I can log in as root and just run |
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> "vgchange -ay" to get the VG up. Note that I don't have to run pvscan |
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> first, which I'm assuming has to mean that it has somehow managed to |
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> find the PVs somewhere in the meantime. |
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> This problem is quite annoying, since it means that I have to restart |
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> NFS and boot the system without the network cable plugged in (if it |
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> was, |
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> the NFS clients would try to reconnect and get handles to the wrong |
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> filesystem, which makes them mark the mount points as stale). Does |
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> anyone have any idea what could cause it? |
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> Thanks for your time! |
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> Fredrik Tolf |
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sounds like you're using device mapper as a module...compile it into |
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the kernel. module loading happens too late |
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