[linux-lvm] pvcreate on a dmraid device
Heinz Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at redhat.com
Fri Nov 4 19:24:31 UTC 2005
Dan,
change your lvm2 "devices" configuration in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf to include:
types = [ "device-mapper", 254 ]
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:05:08PM +0100, Dan Johansson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to this list, but not to Linux and LVM.
> 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
>
> and dmraid shows the raidgroup OK:
> # dmraid -s
> *** Active Set
> name : pdc_edcfibbf
> size : 160086465
> stride : 128
> type : mirror
> status : ok
> subsets: 0
> devs : 2
> spares : 0
>
> Any suggestions on how I can solve this issue and move on with my
> installation.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu>
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