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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:46:04 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
To: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
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Subject: Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:12:25PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> [Christoph Hellwig]
> > It would be really good to have something devfs-like just for LVM in
> > setups that don't use LVM, so we could avoid mounting root read/write
>                         ^^^devfs?

Yes...

> > for device-creation.
> 
> For most people, read/write access to /dev is rarely needed -- how
> often do you create new VGs or LVs?  How often do you run MAKEDEV or
> vgscan?

On every bootup, _before_ doing mount -a

	Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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