Hi Kent, The block device did indeed get created in /dev and the correct pointer exists in /sys/block/bcache0/dev I straced pvcreate and attached the outout, I couldn't see anything that far out of the ordinary though - bar the return that the device had been filtered. I am using commit f4c09286dd3f761310b24bc03e5ce95793a9a30c of bcache-tools.git and commit 7c3e597ca0f5c87767548d1e9aced024aa558b2a of linux-bcache.git The other thing I noticed was that the /dev/disk-by/uuid symlink wasn't created. I went ahead and created this myself but I will investigate why the udev rule didn't do this for me. Below is relevant lines from pvscan and pvcreate: dev05 ~ # cat pvscan.log | grep bcache execve("/sbin/pvscan", ["pvscan", "/dev/bcache0"], [/* 23 vars */]) = 0 read(3, "strace\0pvscan\0/dev/bcache0\0", 31) = 27 readlink("/sys/class/block/bcache0", "../../devices/virtual/block/bcache0"..., 1024) = 35 stat("/sys/devices/virtual/block/bcache0/uevent", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 readlink("/sys/devices/virtual/block/bcache0", 0x7fff9e17aea0, 1024) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) stat("/sys/devices/virtual/block/bcache0/uevent", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/sys/devices/virtual/block/bcache0/uevent", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 read(4, "MAJOR=252\nMINOR=0\nDEVNAME=bcache"..., 4096) = 47 readlink("/sys/devices/virtual/block/bcache0/subsystem", "../../../../class/block"..., 1024) = 23 read(4, "N:bcache0\nW:40\nI:580433490\n", 4096) = 27 stat("/dev/bcache0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(252, 0), ...}) = 0 stat("/sys/class/block/bcache0/dev", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/sys/class/block/bcache0/dev", O_RDONLY) = 6 dev05 ~ # cat pvcreate-strace.log | grep bcache execve("/sbin/pvcreate", ["pvcreate", "/dev/bcache0"], [/* 23 vars */]) = 0 read(3, "strace\0pvcreate\0/dev/bcache0\0", 31) = 29 stat("/dev/bcache0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(252, 0), ...}) = 0 readlink("/sys/dev/block/252:0", "../../devices/virtual/block/bcache0", 1024) = 35 stat("/sys/devices/virtual/block/bcache0/uevent", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 stat("/sys/class/block/bcache0/dev", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/sys/class/block/bcache0/dev", O_RDONLY) = 6 stat("/dev/bcache0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(252, 0), ...}) = 0 stat("/dev/bcache0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(252, 0), ...}) = 0 stat("/sys/class/block/bcache0/dev", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 open("/sys/class/block/bcache0/dev", O_RDONLY) = 6 write(2, "Device /dev/bcache0 not found (o"..., 56Device /dev/bcache0 not found (or ignored by filtering).) = 56 Kind regards, Joseph. On 2 March 2012 17:44, Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Oh - try stracing the pvcreate and see what happens. > > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Kent Overstreet > <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Weird. >> >> Did the /dev/bcache0 device get create created by udev? >> >> It's possible my code isn't poking the right thing. *mutters about the >> block layer...* >> >> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Joseph Glanville >> <joseph.glanville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I can't use bcache devices as members of lvm volume groups because >>> dmsetup can't find the devices. >>> It provides the ever useful feedback of: >>> # pvcreate /dev/bcache0 >>> Device /dev/bcache0 not found (or ignored by filtering). >>> >>> My LVM.conf is only filtering out nbd devices: >>> filter = [ "r|/dev/nbd.*|", "a/.*/" ] >>> >>> Any insight would be greatly appreciated. :) >>> >>> I also noted that bcache devices don't appear in iostat.. >>> >>> Joseph. >>> >>> -- >>> Founder | Director | VP Research >>> Orion Virtualisation Solutions | www.orionvm.com.au | Phone: 1300 56 >>> 99 52 | Mobile: 0428 754 846 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Founder | Director | VP Research >>> Orion Virtualisation Solutions | www.orionvm.com.au | Phone: 1300 56 >>> 99 52 | Mobile: 0428 754 846 >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in >>> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Founder | Director | VP Research Orion Virtualisation Solutions | www.orionvm.com.au | Phone: 1300 56 99 52 | Mobile: 0428 754 846 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html