Re: Strange LVM on RAID Behaviour with Sarge

[Paul Gear <paul@gear.dyndns.org>]

Lucas Barbuto wrote:
> on 29/12/04 00:58, Leni Mayo wrote:
>
> > Lucas Barbuto wrote:
> > > ...
> > > I get this error at the top of dmesg (repeated many times):
> > >
> > >> devfs_mk_dir: invalid argument.<4>devfs_mk_dev: could not append to 
> > parent for /disc
> >
> > I saw the same error message on a sarge installation with a 2.6.8-10 
> > kernel, but not the 2.4.27 kernel.
> >
> > Recompiling the 2.6.8 kernel without devfs makes the problem go away.
> > ie .config reads:
> > 	# CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set
> >
> > I also rebuilt initrd.gz (with lvm2create_initrd.sh, see 
> > http://www.poochiereds.net/svn/lvm2/lvm2create_initrd) because the error 
> > seemed to relate to devfs initialisation at that stage of boot.
>
>
> Leni,
>
> Thanks for following up my post, I'm sure we're not the only two people
> in the world to have seen this problem.

FWIW, i am seeing the same message on start-up with an LVM on RAID1 
setup.  System is a vanilla sarge install with kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686. 
 I've been ignoring the message, and it doesn't seem to have caused any 
problems yet...  ;-)

Paul

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