Re: A buglet with LVM-0.9.1

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolinux.com)
Fri, 2 Feb 2001 20:53:54 -0700 (MST)


J Sloan writes:
> I discovered that lvm seems to have a problem
> with compaq raid controllers - the partitions
> don't have the normal names like /dev/sda1,
> but instead names like /dev/ida/c0d0p1 -
>
> lvm seems to works OK, but lvmdiskscan freaks...
>
> lvmdiskscan -- filling directory cache...
> lvmdiskscan -- walking through all found disks / partitions
> lvmdiskscan -- /dev/ida/c0d0p1 [ 1000.06 MB] free whole disk
> lvmdiskscan -- no valid disks / partitions found
> lvmdiskscan -- please check your disk device special files!

LVM _should_ take care of such devices as well, because there are several
block devices which don't live directly in /dev, especially with devfs.
According to "lvm_dir_cache.c", it should already check /dev/ida for disks.

If it doesn't work for you, this is a bug. It would be useful if you ran
"lvmdiskscan -d" and "cat /proc/partitions" and sent the output to
linux-lvm@sistina.com

Cheers, Andreas

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