[linux-lvm] Can't see /dev/hdk1
Heinz Mauelshagen
mauelsha at ez-darmstadt.telekom.de
Tue Oct 12 22:55:15 UTC 1999
>
> Michael -- many thanks for the bug fix -- all works really well and I'm
> migrating a number of our disk towers to LVM! Your time much appreciated!
> I guess this will make it into the next release?
Yes.
It's in 0.8.
Regards,
Heinz
>
> - b
>
> On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Michael Marxmeier wrote:
>
> > Hi Bruce.
> >
> > > There is no physical hdj* device, as I have kept the disks to one per IDE
> > > channel. (By the way, if it helps, all drives work fine as stand alone
> > > ext2fs devices, and under md raid).
> >
> > And that triggers a bug in pv_read_all_pv(). To opmize scan time for
> > the cluttered /dev directory, pv_read_all_pv() tries to skip all
> > partitions for devices which don't exist.
> > Hover it's done in a wrong way ...
> >
> > As a quick fix, have a look at lib/pv_read_all_pv.c and
> > modify it as below. The current code tries to skip partitions
> > if the device does not exist. However it blindly skips over the
> > next 15 devices it has found in /dev.
> >
> > The code should look like:
> >
> > if ( ( tst = open ( dev_name, O_RDONLY)) == -1) {
> > continue;
> > #if 0
> > if ( MAJOR ( dir_cache[n].st_rdev) != MD_MAJOR &&
> > MINOR ( dir_cache[n].st_rdev) % 16 == 0) {
> > n += 15;
> > continue;
> > }
> > #endif
> > } else close ( tst);
> >
> > Does this fix your problem?
> >
> > The correct solution would be to order the dir_cache in major/minor
> > order and skip based on major/minor.
> >
> >
> > Hope this helps
> > Michael
> >
> > --
> > Michael Marxmeier Marxmeier Software AG
> > E-Mail: mike at msede.com Besenbruchstrasse 9
> > Phone : +49 202 2431440 42285 Wuppertal, Germany
> > Fax : +49 202 2431420 http://www.msede.com/
> >
>
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