Hi Patrick, I've just read #123069, and this is after I yesterday briefly had LVM up and running on a stock Debian kernel without devfs mount or devfsd installed. I shortly afterwards hosed the install and now have LVM on top of a RAID1 device (again, without devfs involved, but with a stock kernel). For the brief period of time that I had the straight LVM going, the sky didn't fall on me. What is the exact nature of the issues with LVM1 and kernels with devfs enabled (but not mounted)? Does it just randomly screw up, or is it not supposed to work at all? I'm doing a bit of testing work for the new debian-installer, and I recently provided a patch for the lvmcfg udeb (it previously wasn't installing lvm10 in the new installation if the installer had set up logical volumes). Currently, on a newly installed Debian system installed by d-i, where LVM has been employed, does not have devfsd installed, and it's using a stock Debian kernel, so devfs is enabled, but not mounted. If this is some sort of random time bomb, we need to address it and ensure that devfsd does get installed, and devfs does get mounted, because the last thing we want to do is have d-i spitting out unreliable sarge installs that use LVM. regards Andrew
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