Alasdair G Kergon <agk@uk.sistina.com> writes: > > without errors, but all the LV device nodes are created with minor 0. > > Some time back, LVM1 introduced persistent minors, so the minor number is > stored on disk and remembered for subsequent activations. > > In LVM2, persistent minors are optional and the default is *not* to use > them, so the minor number may be different each time a device is > activated, and no minor number is stored on disk. > > > IIRC Exporting the VG and then importing it again will reassign LVM1 > minor numbers. OK, thanks. I patched my 2.4 kernel with device-mapper instead and it seems to be working, but it's nice to know what was going on. -- Måns Rullgård mru@users.sf.net _______________________________________________ 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/
