2004-04-28 07:52:41

by Henning Rohde

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Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc2-bk3 (and earlier?) mount problem (?

Dear Mr. Viro,

[email protected] 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