[linux-lvm] is devfs required?

[Vincent AE Scott]

Hi there,
i've been tinkering with LVM, but i'm having some issues with it, and i
was wondering if anyone here could help shed some light for me?

i'm using LVM on a 2.4.17-19mdk kernel patched up to 1.0.3
it *appears* that when i boot up without devfs support, i frequently
cant create/extened/mount filesystems.  but when i boot up with devfs
support it seems to work.

is devfs required to use LVM?

without it, ive seen lvcreate SEGV when attempting to create a new
volume.  

or are there any known problems with using LVM on an SMP host?  i cant
think of anything else that might be causing these strange problems.

oh, and FYI, it was setup up using 1.0.1-rc4ish

TIA,
-vince

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