On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 11:35:58PM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > I've updated the LVM 2.0 and Device-Mapper 1.0 tarballs at > ftp.sistina.com again to incorporate some minor bug fixes > and enhancements. > > [...yadda yadda yadda...] > > If your root filesystem is on a LV, you should run 'vgmknodes' or > 'vgscan --mknodes' to fix up the special files in /dev in your real > root filesystem after finishing with your initrd. Is this advice targeted at non devfs users only? (I'm running linux-2.6-test9 in a Gentoo distribution, with devfs.) Thanks, Toon. > Also, you can use 'vgchange --ignorelockingfailure' on your initrd > if the tool fails because it can't write a lock file to a read-only > filesystem. [A patch for mounting read-only volumes from read-only > PVs went into CVS today - it's not in this particular release.] _______________________________________________ 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/
