[linux-lvm] Missing (or double) logical volume after upgrade to 2.4.7 and beta8 (follow-up)

Patrick Caulfield caulfield at sistina.com
Tue Aug 7 19:04:57 UTC 2001


On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 08:36:11PM +0200, Melis van den Brink wrote:
> 
> The problem seems fixed (or at-least worked around): this particular LV/VG is 
> on a SCSI-disk. The SCSI-subsystem as well as the SCSI-driver (aic7xxx.o) 
> were loadable modules. Today I made a new kernel with these parts no longer 
> as a module but in the kernel itself. The result: at boot/initialisation time 
> the SCSI-system gets loaded, the SCSI-drives get their initialisation and LVM 
> when "vgscan"-ing or "vgchange"-ing sees all the volumes.
> Weird as it is: at the moment this doesn't work when the SCSI-stuff is 
> compiled as a loadable module. Any suggestions: some change in the init-stuff 
> (it's on a 7.2 Mandrake system) or is my current setup the only way to go.

I would go with whatever works for you! All I can think of is that the SCSI
modules are loaded after vgscan runs. That would explain the output you posted
earlier.

patrick




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