On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 09:30, lvm@perkamentus.com wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:09:26PM +0100, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > Check that you don't have a symlink from /dev/hdb to /dev/cdrom. The debian > > lvm.conf file excludes /dev/cdrom from LVM searches. > > It was indeed the symlink, although not from hdb to cdrom, but from > cdrom to hdb. Removing this symlink (or commenting out the filter > option in lvm.conf) solved the problem. > > CDRom has only been present for installation, and afterwards swapped > for extra disk. Symlink however isn't updated. > > Another remark: although cdrom are filtered (and thus not allowed for > LVM), no warning/error messages appear. Wouldn't it be useful if LVM > checks this and shows warning/error messages or even exits during > creation? Not really. Consider users who use multipath; they have to filter or they'll see the same PV over and over and over again. A reference in the docs *would* help, as would a debug message in syslog (debug so it only shows if we're looking for problems). -- David Johnston <david@littlebald.com> Little Bald Consulting, LLC _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
