Andreas, this is a known issue and I am working on a patch to send to Marcelo. Try removing the add_gendisk() call (~line 460) in drivers/md/lvm.c and retry as a workaround for now, On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:44:59PM +0200, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > If CONFIG_BLK_STATS is enabled in 2.4.20pre5 this breaks at least the > LVM tools. The symptom on a system running initrd to do vgscan/vgchange > to be able to boot is that after > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 734k freed > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > > the system hangs with the CPU under load. It is difficult for me to > investigate this further as both systems I do have available run a > LVM/reiserfs only setup and thus I can't have a look at the layout of > /proc/partitions in the CONFIG_BLK_STATS enabled page. > > It would, however, be worth a word of warning in Configure.help that > this option can break userspace tools that may be important for system > boot and other system functions. > -- > Andreas Steinmetz > D.O.M. Datenverarbeitung GmbH > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
