Re: Re: LVM on dmraid breakage
Luca Berra <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.kernel.device-mapper.devel,gmane.linux.ataraid,gmane.linux.lvm.general |
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On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 01:27:34PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: >Alasdair G Kergon wrote: >>But I don't yet see why it didn't also open the other devices, write a >>warning >>message about duplicate IDs, and do the right thing and give them >>precedence. > >Why would it open the other devices? LVM does not scan /dev/mapper/*, >only /dev/sd*. Since it does not scan the /dev/mapper devices for pvs, >it sees no duplicates and can not "do the right thing". LVM scans the whole /dev directory, unless you configure it otherwise. L. -- Luca Berra -- [email protected] Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \