On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:24:55AM -0700, Steven Stillaway wrote: > LVM has /proc/lvm, DM does not seem to have anything > equivalent. > > Is there a reason for this? Yes, device-mapper is a much lower level driver, it is not specific to LVM (eg, it knows nothing about volume groups). The information simply isn't present in the kernel to be published in a /proc file. > Is this likely to change? No. > I ask because my start scripts look for /proc/lvm -- > if I could have them check for /pro/lvm or /proc/dm > and run the appropriate command that would be useful. I'm not sure what you mean by 'appropriate command', what information are you getting from /proc/lvm that you can't get from the userland tools ? If you just want to see if device-mapper is present: grep device-mapper /proc/devices - Joe _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
