Re: LVM and devfs (I'm intrigued)

2004-03-08 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:15:21AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Andrew Pollock wrote: > > 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... > > Yes, the d-i kernel does have devfs

Re: LVM and devfs (I'm intrigued)

2004-03-08 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Pollock wrote: > 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... Yes, the d-i kernel does have devfs both compiled in and enabled by a boot parameter. -- see shy jo sig

Re: LVM and devfs (I'm intrigued)

2004-03-08 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:01:16PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:42:38AM +, 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

Re: LVM and devfs (I'm intrigued)

2004-03-08 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:42:38AM +, 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

Re: LVM and devfs (I'm intrigued)

2004-03-08 Thread Patrick Caulfield
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:25:02PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > I've just read #123069, and this is after I yesterday briefly had LVM up and > running on a stock Debian kernel without devfs mount or devfsd installed. > > I shortly afterwards hosed the install and now have LVM on

LVM and devfs (I'm intrigued)

2004-03-08 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi Patrick, I've just read #123069, and this is after I yesterday briefly had LVM up and running on a stock Debian kernel without devfs mount or devfsd installed. I shortly afterwards hosed the install and now have LVM on top of a RAID1 device (again, without devfs involved, but with a stock kern