Thanks. It turns out that on Debian the hotplug scripts run after the mount scripts, so I ended up taking the LVM entries out of fstab altogether and adding a script to do the vgscan, vgchange and mount. On 2/27/06, kelsey hudson <khudson@tsss.org> wrote: > David Brown wrote: > >>The problem is that the drive is not found at boot anymore, and an > >>error is raised because it can't be mounted. But if I do a vgscan, > >>then a vgchage -ay, then mount -a, all is well and my volumes are > >>mounted. > >> > >>How do I tell LVM to look at the firewire card instead of the usb controller? > > > > LVM should look at all of the devices. > > > > Most likely the firewire interface/driver takes longer to startup than the > > USB does, and the drive isn't visible when the startup scripts do their > > vgscan. > > i've had a bunch of success with one machine on which I run LVM by > simply adding a 5-second wait period between the time the kernel calls > /sbin/init and it begins executing the contents of whatever rc script > init starts at your desired runlevel (add 'sleep 5' to the beginning of > this script). kernel threads are great in some circumstances (like > improving boot speed), but sometimes i guess you could say it boots too > fast for its own good! > > just a side note though: my experience with ieee1394 under linux has > been less-than-satisfactory: i can't seem to get a decent aggregate raw > transfer rate of >11MByte/sec, no matter what hardware i use. i've since > switched back to usb2.0, even though usb is completely and wholly the > wrong transport to use for mass storage devices :( > > if you can get your disks working faster than this, please let me know > how you did it. :) > > thanks > -kelsey > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
