Hi. On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 23:48:41 +0100 Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:57:20AM -0800, Stuart Felenstein wrote: > > I think you may be off here. It was RedHat9 that gave me the > > option of using LVM. > > i said _devfs_ is not supported, > _lvm_ is. > > > I've gone to the 2.4.23 kernel with devfs and lvm support. I > > know there is alot or a good amount of controvery around devfs > > but I think I'll ride it out and see how it works for me. > > > lvm1 tools do have a problem with switching from devfs to non-devfs, > and vice-versa since they use /proc/partitions to find pvs, and do > write the pv name in the metadata. (read the list archives for the > gory details) > > L. > > I use lvm1+devfs on a few (Gentoo, 2.4.23) systems and I had no problems so far. I even switched the drives around, e.g. making primary master secondary slave and so on, and to my suprise it just worked as if I didn't do anything. So I don't understand why there are troubles moving from lvm1 with devfs to lvm without devfs. I even used KNOPPIX in one of the systems, which has devfs disabled AFAIK, and still had no problems getting access on my data besides doing manual "vgscan ; vgchange -a y" and mounting. Just my 0,02 Euro. Greetings Frank Benkstein. _______________________________________________ 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/
