[linux-lvm] '/etc/init.d/lvm' script in debian package
Gergely Tamas
dice at mfa.kfki.hu
Thu Dec 21 08:37:58 UTC 2000
Hi!
> Thanks for the suggestion about checking for a directory. But how will I
> determine what version of LVM if it's a directory? Will there be
> /proc/lvm/version?
$ head -n 1 /proc/lvm/global
LVM driver version 0.9 (13/11/2000)
> LVM isn't something that you want to be automatically loading on demand,
> either you need it or you don't. If you need it then you will probably want
> to compile it in or put it in /etc/modules for loading on boot.
Yes.
A few ideas ...
1) if LVM is compiled into the kernel and /boot/System.map is reachable,
than it could be detected using e.g. 'grep lvm System.map'
2) if /usr/src/kernel/.config is reachable, than it could be detected
using e.g. 'grep -i lvm .config'
3) maybe doing a check for directories countaining 'group' in /dev would
be a usable idea...
Maybe it would be a good idea to put a /proc/lvmstat (similar to mdstat)
as default (not (un)selectable) into proc FS. This would solve most of our
problems.
Gergely
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