Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:15:43 +0200 | | From | Jens Axboe <> | | Subject | Re: [dm-devel] Re: 2.6.27-rc5-mmotm0829 - lvm issues at boot, possible disk_devt() related? |
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On Mon, Sep 01 2008, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:15:58AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:58:40 +0200, Tejun Heo said: > > > Yeah, I made a mistake converting two of them and devt lookup fails when > > > the disk is zero sized. Bartlomiej debugged the problem and posted a > > > patch and I followed up with an updated patch. It should be fine in the > > > next round. > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.next/2663 > > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.next/2676 > > > If you're seeing other problems, please let me know. > > Confirming - 2.6.27-rc5-mmotm0829 plus the merge of the 2 above patches > > does find the LVM volumes and come up. Thanks for the clue.. :) > > I expect we'll need some patches to userspace lvm2 to support these extended > device numbers properly too... > > Alasdair (back from holiday)
They'll be defaulting to off from now on, so it should not be a big worry. But Alan Brunelle did find that the "10-character limit in dm/lib/libdm-deptree is too small".
-- Jens Axboe
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