• Bug#265868: root-on-LVM-on-RAID workarounds (2/2)

    From Olaf Mandel@1:229/2 to All on Sun Aug 15 15:10:08 2004
    [continued from previous message]

    symbolic links for /dev/md -> ../devfs/md and thus does not find the physical volume (if 'scan = [ "/dev" ]' in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf)
    If a devfs is mounted on /dev, it crashes (or devfs_mk_dir crashes?) on certain devices.
    Quick-Fix: specify exactly in the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf, which device contains the PV.
    For me, the entries are:
    scan = [ "/dev/md", "/dev" ]
    filter = [ "a|/dev/md/1|", "a|/dev/md1|", "r|.*|" ]
    with all other "filter =" entries commented out.
    Better solutions:
    a) find out, what vgchange does that makes the devfs fail
    b) do not mount a devfs on top of /dev in the initrd and make
    vgchange follow symlinks.

    (Can this last part be forwarded to the Bug #262092 ?)

    For more infos, contact me. I am looking forward to this thing becoming
    the default installer.

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