/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and lvm
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Thu Jul 1 15:15:29 UTC 2004
Russell Coker (russell at coker.com.au) said:
> The script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit has the following code to initialise LVM. Why
> is this necessary? Everything else in /dev can remain safely as it is
> between boots, why is LVM unlike everything else in that it requires it's
> device node to be re-created, why can't it get allocated a number in
> devices.txt?
It's a dynamic major/mior. I suppose it could check that the current
dynamic major/minor matches what's on the filesystem...
Bill
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