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From: Dan Johansson <Dan.Johansson@×××.nu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mdev and lvm2
Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 15:58:40
Message-Id: 11693634.Uj3NZFLgAn@queen
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] mdev and lvm2 by Alan Mackenzie
1 On Sunday 07 April 2013 13.47:55 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
2 > Hi, Dan.
3 >
4 > On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 02:34:16PM +0200, Dan Johansson wrote:
5 > > Hello List,
6 >
7 > > What is the status of using mdev (instead the ever "growing" udev)
8 > > together with lvm2? Reason for my question is that at
9 > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Mdev it says " One beta tester reports
10 > > getting close with lvm2, but it's not there yet.".
11 >
12 > I think that beta tester was me. I had lvm2 partitions running under
13 > mdev without problems. (They were also RAID-1, just for completion's
14 > sake.)
15 >
16 > The only change I had to make was to my /etc/fstab. Where I previously
17 > had:
18 >
19 > /dev/vg/usr /usr <options>
20 >
21 > under udev, I then needed
22 >
23 > /dev/mapper/vg-usr /usr <options>
24 >
25 > instead. mdev failed to create the /dev/vg directory. With this change,
26 > my system worked quite happily. Sadly, I went back to udev when
27 > xf86-input-evdev-2.7.0 started depending on udev, back in June last year.
28 Hi Alan,
29
30 Thanks for you feedback.
31
32 Regards,
33 --
34 Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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