Re: [dm-devel] linux-2.6.35+ causes LVM to fail with "device-mapper: version ioctl failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device"

From: Alasdair G Kergon
Date: Sun Aug 15 2010 - 12:03:16 EST


> Just a vanilla linux. No udev.

So likely a userspace problem where udev is now assumed to be present.

> > Provide long listing of /dev/mapper and any dm/lvm devices in /dev.

You can do that by running:
ls -l /dev/mapper /dev/vg01

Also:
cat /proc/devices
cat /proc/misc

Alasdair

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