From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264683AbUD1Hwl (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:52:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264684AbUD1Hwk (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:52:40 -0400 Received: from p213.54.6.152.tisdip.tiscali.de ([213.54.6.152]:60683 "EHLO mail.our-home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264683AbUD1Hwj (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 03:52:39 -0400 Message-Id: <37355407.b2srnFq9xu@rohde-29233.user.cis.dfn.de> From: Henning Rohde Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc2-bk3 (and earlier?) mount problem (? To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:52:40 +0200 User-Agent: KNode/0.7.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dear Mr. Viro, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 10:39:09PM +0200, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: >> > c) nobody sane should put that as default. Oh, wait, it's gentoo >> > we are talking about? Nevermind, then. >> >> But what default? Gentoo just calls evms_activate before mounting >> filesystems to check if there are evms volumes (because filesystems can >> reside on it). And, according to man page, this is the right usage of >> evms_activate. > > And that usage of evms_activate takes over all normally partitioned > devices > and shoves equivalents of partitions under /dev/evms, right? So in which > universe would that be the right thing to do without a big fat warning and > update of /etc/fstab? please have a look at http://evms.sourceforge.net/install/kernel.html, chapter 3, part E: BD-Claim Patch. Just my 2 cents of EUR, Henning Rohde