/ 2006-07-25 13:34:02 +0200 \ Dennis Ortsen: ... > However when I shoot down udevd (udev-071-0.FC4.3) I can create as many snapshot > devices as I like. Until the udevd daemon has been respawned. Then it all stops > working (the creation of snapshot volumes). When I disable udev in > /etc/rc.sysinit (place comments before start_udev and udevsend) and reboot, I > can create snapshot volumes a dozen of times without problems. Until I manually > start udevd. Then the fun is over. When I kill udevd again, I can continue > creating snapshot volumes. Both servers (the one that works and the one that > doesn't) have the exact same versions of the kernel, lvm2, > device-mapper and udev. > > My best guess is udev that is messing about. I don't know whether I can safely > disable udev on a production server. But more importantly: what can I > do to get this properly fixed? Am I missing an important update? Are > there any known conflicts with other packages or third party software > (such as roxen)? Is there anyone who has similar problems? maybe its the same problem? excerpt from my /etc/udev/udev.rules: # device mapper creates its own device nodes, so ignore these #lge: see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343671 #KERNEL=="dm-[0-9]*", NAME="" KERNEL=="dm-[0-9]*", OPTIONS+="ignore_device" KERNEL=="device-mapper", NAME="mapper/control" -- : Lars Ellenberg Tel +43-1-8178292-55 : : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH Fax +43-1-8178292-82 : : Schoenbrunner Str. 244, A-1120 Vienna/Europe http://www.linbit.com : _______________________________________________ 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/
