On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 08:43:35AM +0200, Herman Kuster wrote: > Hi, > > I've got the following problem: > I've a firewire harddisk (maxtor 5000xt), this disk works fine and is > available as /dev/sda in my system. > On this disk i have created one single pv (on /dev/sda, no partitioning) > I have put this pv into a vg, and in this volume group i have created one > lv. > All seems to be working fine until the time comes when my computer restarts. > On a boot somehow the lvm system forgets the pv on de firewire harddisk and > only shows (on a pvscan for example) the pv/vg/lv's on my normal harddisks > (/dev/hda and /dev/hdb). By the time the lvm system starts up i'm sure the > ieee1394 system is up and running (i modified my rc.sysinit file so the > ieee1394 system is startup before lvm). > Even when i am logged in as a user the lvm system still doesn't know the pv > on my firewire harddisk. But after I do a 'pvdisplay /dev/sda' the pv is > shown correctly and now the lvm system knows about the pv (it shows up in > pvscan and the vg/lv become available etc.). Does anyone know why my system > behaves as it does (btw i'm using a redhat 9.0 clean install), is this some > kind of bug in the lvm system, am i doing something wrong, please help. My guess is, that either the lack of partitioning prohibits the correct detection of your lvm volume, or some drivers (eg. sd_mod) are not present at pvscan time, which get automagically loaded when you explicitely access /dev/sda ... HTH, Herbert > Thanks, > > Herman > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
