does anyone recognize this as a bug within lvm? there clearly is not a partition on sda (according to /proc/partitions) but pvcreate thinks there is one. if pvcreate examines only /proc/partitions for disk partitions and there is not a partition on a disk then why does pvcreate fail? i may not understand all of the underlying behavior of pvcreate but it appears to be failing when it shouldnt. is this a bug? On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 16:57, rich turner wrote: > i dont completely agree with that because even when i use a kernel that > does not have devfs i still get the same symptoms. even though > /proc/partitions does not have a partition for a disk pvcreate still > complains that there is one. pvcreate must be looking someplace else or > there is a bug within lvm. > > now, if i create a pv within a partition there are no complaints, lvm > will continue normally. it appears to only happen when i want to create > a pv on the entire disk. > > why does pvcreate think there is a partition when there clearly isnt > one? > > On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 00:21, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 02:22:23PM -0700, Rich Turner wrote: > > > even though devfs is compiled in the kernel it actually is not mounted > > > at this time. i have tried it using devfs long names also with no > > > success. > > > > If devfs is in the kernel you MUST have it mounted for LVM. It's to do with the > > interaction between /proc/partitions and LVM. > > > > > > > > patrick > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
