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