[linux-lvm] vgscan -- invalid i/o protocol version

[Michael Marxmeier]

> so i ran vgscan and got the message in the subject line. It's possible I'm
> being really thick and I don't really know what I'm doing. Do I need the
> devfs patches too?

AFAIR this error message has appeared previously when the /dev/lvm
device file was missing.

$ ls -l /dev/lvm
crw-r-----   1 root     root     109,   0 Mar 31 05:13 /dev/lvm

If it's not created, try a mknod /dev/lvm c 109 0

> I'm new to lvm-on-linux but I love it on HP-UX.

You're welcome.


Hope this helps
Michael

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