Koos, that's a know constraint in LVM1. In recent LVM1 versions, there's support for environment variable LVM_DEV_REFIX. Still needs some work to anable arbitrary devfs mount points though. LVM2 is fully configurable already ITR. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:22:54AM +0200, Koos van den Hout wrote: > > It seems the lvm tools get confused when there is devfs compiled into the > kernel but it's not mounted at /dev. Twice I had > > lvcreate -l 1024 vghm -n home > > fail on me with an error about /dev/vghm/home being inacessible. That's > simply because it was not there. > > When I created /dev/vghm/home with the same data as /devices/vghm/home > it wasn't available right away (according to vgdisplay, the extents > were allocated, but lvdisplay did not show the logical volume). When I reran > vgscan (and maybe rebooted in the process, I have rebooted lots of times) > it showed up and worked. The device is formatted with reiserfs now and > mounted. > > Now, when I try to display the volume info: > > root@NEWgosper:~# lvdisplay /devices/vghm/home > lvdisplay -- invalid logical volume name "/devices/vghm/home" > > > root@NEWgosper:~# lvdisplay /dev/vghm/home > --- Logical volume --- > LV Name /dev/vghm/home > VG Name vghm > LV Write Access read/write > LV Status available > LV # 1 > # open 1 > LV Size 4.00 GB > Current LE 1024 > Allocated LE 1024 > Allocation next free > Read ahead sectors 120 > Block device 58:1 > > root@NEWgosper:~# ls -l /dev/vghm/home /devices/vghm/home > brw-r----- 1 root root 58, 1 Apr 29 01:23 /dev/vghm/home > brw-r----- 1 root root 58, 1 Jan 1 1970 /devices/vghm/home > > Kernel 2.4.18, devfs compiled in but mounted on /devices and not on /dev > (just testing with devfs). > > Logical Volume Manager 1.0 > Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software 14/08/2001 (IOP 10) > > Koos van den Hout > > -- > Koos van den Hout, PGP keyid RSA/1024 0xCA845CB5 via keyservers > koos@kzdoos.xs4all.nl or DSS/1024 0xF0D7C263 -?) > Fax +31-30-2817051 Visit my site about books with reviews /\\ > http://idefix.net/~koos/ http://www.virtualbookcase.com/ _\_V > > _______________________________________________ > 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 *** 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
