Re: [dm-devel] Re: 2.6.27-rc5-mmotm0829 - lvm issues at boot, possible disk_devt() related?

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:15:58AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:58:40 +0200, Tejun Heo said:
> > Yeah, I made a mistake converting two of them and devt lookup fails when
> > the disk is zero sized.  Bartlomiej debugged the problem and posted a
> > patch and I followed up with an updated patch.  It should be fine in the
> > next round.
> >   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.next/2663
> >   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.next/2676
> > If you're seeing other problems, please let me know.
> Confirming - 2.6.27-rc5-mmotm0829 plus the merge of the 2 above patches
> does find the LVM volumes and come up.  Thanks for the clue.. :)

I expect we'll need some patches to userspace lvm2 to support these extended
device numbers properly too...

Alasdair (back from holiday)
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