Sorry to post this again but my attempts to register with the mailing list failed so badly I have no way of knowing if my original email made it....
No doubt I'm being stupid but I cannot find a whole load of documentation on device mapper and LVM2 - there's a certain amount with the source but it's more what I'd call a rough guide.
My problem is I cannot create a PV (let alone a logical Vol) on a devicemapped device.
I am using a stock 2.4.22 kernel with the latest stable dm and LVM2 stuff from the sistina web site.
if I use "lvm version" I get the following
LVM Version 2.00.08 (2003-11-14) Library Version 1.00.07-ioctl (2003-11-21) Driver 4.0.5
The kernel patches, the compiles went perfectly and I can see the device mapper stuff loaded (I've compiled the dm and lvm stuff in statically) at boot time. I run the mknod scripts at boot up as well.
I have managed to create a simple stripe using hda4 and hdc4 partitions and I have a lovely big devicemapper device called bigdisk.
The special file for this is in /dev/mapper/bigdisk and has major 254 and minor of 0.
I can create any regular file system on this device mount it and use it.
If I try to initialise this with pvcreate as in
lvm pvcreate -vvv /dev/mapper/bigdisk
it fails. The ominous line is:
/dev/mapper/bigdisk: Skipping: Unrecognised LVM device type 254
That's it I cannot progress further than that.
I am using the sample lvm.conf file that came with the LVM2 code. Initially I had no lvm.conf file (just for testing) and it did not work.
I have created a LVM on /dev/hdd4 and that works perfectly so I know the general installation must be good - well I assume it is!
I know that I have to be missing something obviously simple but without any doccos I am stumped.
Can anyone help - I hope someone else is trying to create LVs on devicemapper type devices.
Mark
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