[systemd-devel] Problem with LVM

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at frugalware.org
Mon Jan 17 16:44:33 PST 2011


On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:39:48PM +0100, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> Older LVM versions used to create device nodes and symlinks to them on
> their own instead of leaving that to udev (nobody should do that: /dev
> is udev's territory and nobody else's). The effect of that is udev's
> database doesn't know about it and hence systemd does neither.
> 
> This has been fixed a while back on Fedora, and I presume upstream too
> (given that RH is upstream for LVM). So my guess is that you simply need
> to update your LVM userspace and things should start to work.

Thanks for the idea. In fact LVM was new enough, but udev support was
missing. After adding udev support (--with-udevdir=/lib/udev/rules.d
--enable-udev_sync) everything works fine. :)
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