Hello, all. Although RH does not support LVM in 7.2, I've been making use of it by compiling my own kernel. The LVM patches will not patch clean on my RH 390 systems, so we are stuck at version .9.1, but it does work. Just yesterday I built a new kernel and compiled LVM as a module for the first time. After building the kernel, I rebooted and was surpirsed to see that LVM did not initialize. After boot, I could run vgscan manually and lvm would become active, but not during boot up. After looking into rc.sysinit, I found that for vgscan to run, three conditions needed to be met.../sbin/vgscan had to exist, /etc/lvmtab must exist, and /proc/lvm must exist. Unfortunately, when lvm is modularized, the /proc entry is created whenever the module is loaded, not permanently. This causes the rc.sysinit test to fail and LVM is not initialized. Of course, it is simple to work around this. I changed rc.sysinit to test for /proc/lvm OR the existence of the lvm-mod, and that seemed to work fine. This is just an FYI so that others in similar circumstances can avoid any confusion. Michael Lambert _______________________________________________ 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
