On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:16:07AM -0700, Rich Turner wrote: > how does pvscan and vgscan know what devices to scan to search for pv's > and vg's? is there a file that it uses to determine which disks to open? > it does not appear to try to open all devices when their respective > modules have not been loaded yet. LVM1 has the tradeoff that all supported devices are hard-coded which we changed in LVM2 to be configurable (using regular expressions). > > my situation is that i have volume groups on multiple scsi devices but > the scsi modules are not being loaded before vgscan is being run in the > rc.sysinit. i realize that this is a problem inherent with the > rc.sysinit and can be fixed within it. but, my question is how does > vgscan scan all devices without opening them? normally when a device is > opened all of the modules are automatically loaded, hence vgscan will > find them. It does open them. You likely have a kmod misconfiguration preventing module load if it fails to. > > using lvm 1.0.3 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ -- 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://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
