Stefan Monnier wrote: > I'm trying to use LVM2 on a small MIPS machine. This machine uses > uClibc-0.9.29 with Linux-2.6.25.20 and has limited RAM and CPU power, > but does come with a 1TB drive which I'd rather manage with LVM. > I had no particular problems building the latest version of LVM2 > for it. And as far as I can tell, it's not fully broken, > but it's unusable: every run of `lvm' gives different results. > E.g. `lvm pvs' sometimes gives the expected output, sometimes lists > nothing at all, sometimes complains about missing volume groups, > sometimes "Incorrect metadata area header checksum" [as mentioned in an > earlier message on this list, incidentally]. I guess that using uClibc is the problem. Can you try to link it to standard glibc (if possible; you can try to use static build also)? (Just to test that using uClibc is the problem or not.) > Then I installed Debian in a chroot, and Debian's 2.02.39 version of > `lvm' works just fine. That version uses glibc, right? Milan -- mbroz@redhat.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/
