Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote: > > So much for universal uniqueness... > The VG UUIDs *are* meant to all be the same on devices that are part of the > same VG. It's the PV UUIDs that differ. Oh, I realise that. Just a small joke about my non-random choice of UUID... :) > > For the record, I created my LVM1 partitions with Linux Mandrake 9.2. > Could /dev/urandom have been missing when pvcreate was run? > We think that would explain the symptoms. Good thought! It's very possible since of course only a crippled environment is available at install time. I'll try to verify it later. > > Should "vgchange -a n" maybe clean up these symlinks? > It's supposed to do. Hmmm. I've hacked my init scripts to do it in the meanwhile, but I will pay closer attention to what happens next time I boot and report back. Happily, so far I don't see any reason to go back to Linux 2.4 though and a quite a few reasons to stay in 2.6.... Cheers, Navin. _______________________________________________ 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/
