On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 12:06:44PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Oct 04, 2001 16:51 +0200, yves.alloyer wrote: > > pvcreate /dev/md1 complained about using a Linux SWAP partition strange post output of lvmdiskscan > Did you change the partition type with fdisk to be the LVM partition type? > Hmm, I suppose that if you are using MD RAID autostart, you need to have > that partition type instead. yes lvm code looks for either lvm partition or md device. > > I tweaked lvm_check_partitioned_device to have it return FALSE for MD > > devices. This would probably prevent me from partitioning any MD device. But > > I won't anyway... that's what I use LVM for. this should not be needed, i'll have to check that code... > I don't think you CAN partition an MD device and use it (what would the minor > numbers be?). Please submit the patch. if you look on Neil Brown (md maintainer) site you will find patches to partition md devices http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux > > Has anyone experience with that kind of layout? Is it just plain insane? > > No, sounds sensible to me. Make sure you have a rescue disk/partition which > has MD, LVM, and reiserfs tools on it. i was able to put everything in my initrd using busybox for most tools (i have lvm over raid5 and 3 way mirrored /boot) L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \
