Bug 50556
| Summary: | LVM issues with RH7.1 | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Patrick Linskey <pcl> | ||||
| Component: | initscripts | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | leo, rvokal, zmousm | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2002-10-09 01:17:52 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 75492 | ||||||
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LVM is _completely_ unsupported in Red Hat Linux 7.1. However, we appreciate your comments on this section of the initscripts, and will be working to incorporate these fixes into a future release, when LVM is supported. Created attachment 34762 [details]
LVM-Init after RAID-Init
think LVM should be initialized after RAID init maybe a volume group contains a md device... -e /proc/lvm works if LVM is compiled into the kernel or the module was loaded before (create an initrd with lvm included?) The issues about LVM before/after raid are handled in current initscripts, and LVM is on the initrd of LVM setups created in the installer. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Upon creating a LVM physical volume, volume group, and two logical volumes and successfully mounting and using the partitions, RedHat 7.1 failed to mount the lvm partitions on reboot. It was possible to mount the lvm partitions manually. After some digging, I found the problem: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit was checking for /proc/lvm *before* running vgscan. vgscan is responsible for creating /proc/lvm, so the check was always evaluating to false. I fixed rc.sysinit by changing the following lines near 273 (I fiddled with the file for a bit, so I do not have an accurate line number) as shown below: ------ Original text ------ if [ -e /proc/lvm -a -x /sbin/vgchange -a -f /etc/lvmtab ]; then action $"Setting up LVM:" /sbin/vgscan && /sbin/vgchange -a y fi ------ Corrected text ------ if [ -x /sbin/vgchange -a -f /etc/lvmtab ]; then action $"Setting up LVM:" /sbin/vgscan && /sbin/vgchange -a y fi How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a clean RH7.1 installation 2. Patch kernel w/ latest lvm source (0.9.1_beta8 was what I used) 3. Recompile kernel, install lvm tools, etc. 4. Create a new LVM physical volume, volume group, logical volume. 5. Add an entry for the new lv to /etc/fstab, and configure the entry to automount at boot. 6. Reboot. Notice that the new lv is not mounted, and an error was reported during boot while trying to mount the lvm partition. Actual Results: new lv was not mounted. It was possible to manually mount. Expected Results: The new lv should have been mounted by the automated boot sequence. Additional info: