On Friday 04 November 2005 21.35, Richard Fish wrote: > Dan Johansson wrote: > >I'm trying to setup a new Linux-server with an on board RAID-controller > >(Promise PDC20265 FastTrak100 Lite/Ultra100). Now everything goes well > > until I try to do a pvcreate on one of the raid-partitions, this is the > > output I get: > ># pvcreate /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4 > > Device /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4 not found. > > > >But the device-file is there (along with the other partitions). > > > ># ll /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf* > >brw------- 1 root root 253, 7 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf > >brw------- 1 root root 253, 8 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf1 > >brw------- 1 root root 253, 9 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf2 > >brw------- 1 root root 253, 10 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf3 > >brw------- 1 root root 253, 11 Nov 4 18:22 /dev/mapper/pdc_edcfibbf4 > > I suspect the devices are being filtered. Take a look at > /etc/lvm/lvm.conf, and try running pvcreate with "-vv" to see how it is > probing the devices. You might need to add a 'filter = [ a/pdc_*/" ]' > option to lvm.conf.
I got a tip on the LVM mailinglist and now it works. I had to change my lvm2 "devices" configuration in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf to include: types = [ "device-mapper", 254 ] Regards, -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***************************************************
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