Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:39:09 +0200 (CEST) | From | Grzegorz Kulewski <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.6-rc2-bk3 (and earlier?) mount problem (? |
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 12:04:59AM +0400, Paul P Komkoff Jr wrote: > > > Excuse me? The damn thing had found nothing. However, it didn't care > > > to release the devices it had claimed - hadn't even closed them, as the > > > matter of fact. That's a clear and obvious bug, regardless of any > > > disagreements. > > > > As far as I can see from here, evms parsed partition table, called > > dmsetup several times and created corresponding nodes in /dev/evms. > > ... without saying anything? > > > Logic is easy - evms trying to concentrate block device management > > into its own hands, but we have in-kernel partitioning code to > > consider ... > > How nice of them. > > Well, AFAICS that means > a) either kernel side of the things or the userland tools should > printk/syslog - at least that evms device had been set up > b) any distribution that runs this from initrd/init scripts would > better take care of having sane fstab. > c) nobody sane should put that as default. Oh, wait, it's gentoo > we are talking about? Nevermind, then.
But what default? Gentoo just calls evms_activate before mounting filesystems to check if there are evms volumes (because filesystems can reside on it). And, according to man page, this is the right usage of evms_activate. And Gentoo could not know easily that I have no evms volumes in the system. And I possibly could insert some and boot Gentoo (and for example have label not device in fstab to specify fs to mount). I really think that evms_activate should not take the device that is not for it. And I think Gentoo is right. (And it is the best distro I ever tried.)
Grzegorz Kulewski
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