On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:36:02PM +0000, Vincent AE Scott wrote: > Hi there, > i've been tinkering with LVM, but i'm having some issues with it, and i > was wondering if anyone here could help shed some light for me? > > i'm using LVM on a 2.4.17-19mdk kernel patched up to 1.0.3 > it *appears* that when i boot up without devfs support, i frequently > cant create/extened/mount filesystems. but when i boot up with devfs > support it seems to work. > > is devfs required to use LVM? No, but in case you use devfs, you need to go with the long devfs device pathes. > > without it, ive seen lvcreate SEGV when attempting to create a new > volume. Hm. Seems to be more of a tool bug. Which tool version are you using? In case of 0.9.1 Beta something, you should update to 1.0.3, which we released last Monday. > > or are there any known problems with using LVM on an SMP host? i cant > think of anything else that might be causing these strange problems. > > oh, and FYI, it was setup up using 1.0.1-rc4ish That should be fine but as said, you could still run older tools which might be causing the SEGV. > > TIA, > -vince > > -- > PGP key: http://codex.net/pgp/pgp.asc > > Smash forehead on keyboard to continue... > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
