[linux-lvm] problem with vgcreate ...

Patrick Caulfield caulfield at sistina.com
Wed Apr 4 16:03:13 UTC 2001


On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 01:44:48AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Artur, you write:
> > I have problem with LVM beta6.
> > but when i started module and i want create lvm group
> > (vgcreate lvmgrp /dev/sd?? /dev/sd??) I obtain:
> > lvm -- lvm_chr_ioctl: unknown command 4004fe0a
> > vgcreate -- ERROR "Invalid argument" creating VGDA for volume group
> > "lvmgrp" in kernel.
> 
> The problem is that the kernel is running LVM beta2, and the user tools are
> beta6.  I posted a patch to this list for vg_create_remove() which will fix
> the problem.  You will still get the ioctl message, but vgcreate will work.
> Let's hope it makes it into CVS soon.

I'll get onto it tomorrow.


patrick




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