[DRBD-user] Automated entries in /dev/mapper

Noah Mehl noah at tritonlimited.com
Tue Sep 6 18:45:58 CEST 2011

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Florian,

Thanks for the info.  That fixed it.  But I have to say, I've never seen the need to update initrd in ANY of the documentation before.  Did I miss it somewhere?

~Noah

On Sep 6, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Florian Haas wrote:

> On 09/06/11 17:34, Noah Mehl wrote:
>> I have made the following changes to the lvm.conf:
>> 
>> filter = [ "r|/dev/vdb.*|", "r|/dev/disk/by-path/*|", "r|/dev/block/*|", "a/.*/" ]
>> 
>> write_cache_state = 0
>> 
>> I have deleted the /etc/lvm/cache/.cache
>> 
>> But, every time I reboot, even though pvdisplay and vgdisplay doesn't show my /dev/vdb1 pv, and nfs vg, I still get the lv's in the /dev/mapper folder.  This is a problem when I start drbd, it says the lower level device is busy.  Any ideas?
> 
> Your lvm.conf is likely included in your initial ramdisk, and you
> probably forgot to update that. Thus, your LVM volumes are probably
> being enabled by the initrd, and this preempts DRBD.
> 
> Update your initrd, reboot, and see if the problem persists.
> 
> Florian
> 
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