"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes: > i think i'm confused about the support for device mapper in the > 2.6 kernel. i'm aware that i need to install device-mapper for > LVM2, and i know where to get the device-mapper tarball. > > but, in the configuration process for the 2.6 kernel, you can > select device mapper support, so i did and built it into the > kernel. i assumed (perhaps unwisely) that device mapper was now > part of the 2.6 kernel source tree, and i now had it since i'd > selected it as part of the configuration in the kernel build for > my 2.6.0-test11 kernel. therefore, i didn't need to explicitly > install device-mapper anymore. Linux 2.6 includes device-mapper, but (obviously) only the kernel side of it. You still need to install the user space library. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se _______________________________________________ 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/
