Re: devfs persistence

From: Heinz Mauelshagen (mauelsha@EZ-Darmstadt.telekom.de)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 11:02:13 EST

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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 09:17:55AM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> >
> > What about LVM? And which would you think is a "cleaner" solution: MD
> > or LVM?
>
> LVM is probably more appropriate as a pseudo-partitioning tool, but
> I'm not sure if it has the same auto-start functionality that the
> raid code currently has. Heinz, can LVM configure itself by scanning
> partitions at kernel boot time without user-space intervention?

Not so far.
It is on the TODO though ;-{)

You have to run vgchange in userland to load the metadata into the driver.

>
> --Stephen
>

Heinz

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