Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263094AbUJ2FAm (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:00:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263103AbUJ2FAg (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:00:36 -0400 Received: from mx15.sac.fedex.com ([199.81.195.17]:9486 "EHLO mx15.sac.fedex.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263094AbUJ2FAc (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:00:32 -0400 Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:58:34 +0800 (SGT) From: Jeff Chua X-X-Sender: jchua@silk.corp.fedex.com To: Alasdair G Kergon cc: Jeff Chua , Andrew Morton , Mathieu Segaud , axboe@suse.de, jfannin1@columbus.rr.com, christophe@saout.de, Linux Kernel , bzolnier@gmail.com Subject: Re: 2.6.9-mm1: LVM stopped working (dio-handle-eof.patch) In-Reply-To: <20041028145604.GA20448@agk.surrey.redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20041026135955.GA9937@agk.surrey.redhat.com> <20041026213703.GA6174@rivenstone.net> <20041026151559.041088f1.akpm@osdl.org> <87hdogvku7.fsf@barad-dur.crans.org> <20041026222650.596eddd8.akpm@osdl.org> <20041027054741.GB15910@suse.de> <20041027064146.GG15910@suse.de> <877jpcgolt.fsf@barad-dur.crans.org> <20041027132422.760d5f5e.akpm@osdl.org> <20041028145604.GA20448@agk.surrey.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ENTPM11/FEDEX(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 10/29/2004 01:00:23 PM, Serialize by Router on ENTPM11/FEDEX(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at 10/29/2004 01:00:26 PM, Serialize complete at 10/29/2004 01:00:26 PM Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1116 Lines: 26 On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 12:52:20PM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: >> I'm using 2.6.10-rc1 and got the following error ... >> # lvcreate -L 100M -n lv01 vg01 >> device-mapper ioctl cmd 0 failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device >> striped: Required device-mapper target(s) not detected in your kernel >> lvcreate: Create a logical volume > > But that's *not* the dio problem we're discussing in this thread. > It's saying userspace communication with device-mapper isn't working, > most likely because there's something wrong with the way your > system creates /dev/mapper/control when booting or the ioctl > compatibility code (what architecture?). doesn't make any sense to me. Why would 2.6.9 works then? Architecture is Intel running on IBM X31 notebook. Never had LVM problem until 2.6.10-rc1. It just went dead. Jeff. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/