From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756588AbYIAJ6s (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 05:58:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751911AbYIAJ6j (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 05:58:39 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:43487 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751904AbYIAJ6j (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 05:58:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 10:56:51 +0100 From: Alasdair G Kergon To: Tejun Heo Cc: device-mapper development , Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , lvm-devel@redhat.com Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: 2.6.27-rc5-mmotm0829 - lvm issues at boot, possible disk_devt() related? Message-ID: <20080901095651.GI15123@agk.fab.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Tejun Heo , device-mapper development , Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , lvm-devel@redhat.com References: <4963.1220240176@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <48BBA0B0.5070309@kernel.org> <7045.1220260558@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7045.1220260558@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered in England and Wales, number 03798903. Registered Office: Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:15:58AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:58:40 +0200, Tejun Heo said: > > Yeah, I made a mistake converting two of them and devt lookup fails when > > the disk is zero sized. Bartlomiej debugged the problem and posted a > > patch and I followed up with an updated patch. It should be fine in the > > next round. > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.next/2663 > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.next/2676 > > If you're seeing other problems, please let me know. > Confirming - 2.6.27-rc5-mmotm0829 plus the merge of the 2 above patches > does find the LVM volumes and come up. Thanks for the clue.. :) I expect we'll need some patches to userspace lvm2 to support these extended device numbers properly too... Alasdair (back from holiday) -- agk@redhat.com