On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 12:05 +0100, Milan Broz wrote: > On 01/28/2010 10:50 AM, Hadmut Danisch wrote: > > With a 2.6.31 kernel (ubuntu) I run into the problem that some dmsetup > > and dmlosetup commands that used to work before do not work anymore. > > > > e.g. > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/testdisk count=1000 > > dmsetup create xxxtest --table '0 1000 loop /tmp/testdisk 0' > > dm-loop target was never in upstream kernel, it is still available only > as separate kernel patch. > > You had patched kernel previously perhaps? I think at some point someone was packaging unofficial Ubuntu kernels with the dm-loop patch applied (I got some bugmail from launchpad about it). Hadmut, is it possible you had one of these installed previously? Regards, Bryn. _______________________________________________ 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/