On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:42:38AM +0000, Patrick Caulfield wrote: [snip interesting stuff]
> > That's interesting. > > It was always the case that if you have devfs in the kernel but not > mounted, the partition names in /proc/partitions showed devfs names rather > than "normal" /dev/sda* type names. LVM can't reconcile those names at all > so it will refuse to create VGs, saying it can't find the devices. Okay, AFAIK the kernel d-i boots with for the installation process *doesn't* have devfs enabled, so this could explain why the initial VG and LV creation works... > I must confess I haven't tried this for some time, I know for sure that > the LVM code that deals with this hasn't changed. (very little of LVM1 has > changed for ages now and it's going to stay that way). But then, it also > seems very unlikely that devfs has changed here either. I'll have a look > at it some time and see if I can find out what's happening because it > certainly didn't work (I remember a flurry of bug reports about it!) > > > So, it's not a random time-bomb. If it works then it won't cause any > corruption or later problems That's good to know. If I can provide any further diagnostic information for you, let me know. I only run stock Debian kernels, and I'm happy to hose my desktop again, as it's only freshly installed from last night, so it's no big loss. I can do a non-mirrored non-devfs install if you like. I can confirm that /proc/partitions contains devfs names presently, and I don't have devfsd running or devfs mounted. regards Andrew
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