[linux-lvm] Slackware init

[AJ Lewis]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 01:33:05PM -0500, ardy at rdb.linux-help.org wrote:
> What happens is when vgscan starts, it takes about 1.5 minutes to scan,
> and while its scanning, the kernel is reporting a whole lot of modprobe
> errors for modules I don't have/need. What I ended up doing was aliasing
> off the block-major devices that were being scanned that I don't have on
> my system:
> 
> alias block-major-9     off
> alias block-major-22    off
> alias block-major-33    off
> alias block-major-34    off
> alias block-major-48    off
> alias block-major-49    off
> alias block-major-50    off
> alias block-major-51    off
> alias block-major-52    off
> alias block-major-53    off
> alias block-major-54    off
> alias block-major-55    off
> 
> Consequently, the loop block module gets loaded because it too is scanned. 
> After the 1.5 minute scan, everything is mounted from fstab, including the
> LVM volumes. 

Are you by chance using a 2.4.x kernel with devfs support compiled in, but
not being mounted?  I am seeing the same thing with that setup.

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