In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:49:17PM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote:
>> You definately can mknod(2) on devfs. [..]
> So then why don't we simply create the VG ourself with the right minor number
> and use it as we do without devfs? We'll still have a global 256 VG limit this
> way but that's not a minor issue.
Yes - that's how I did it in my inital LVM & devfs patches.
It would be really good to have something devfs-like just for LVM in
setups that don't use LVM, so we could avoid mounting root read/write
for device-creation.
One of the stronger points for a per-driver devfs, IHMO.
Christoph
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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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