From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 098DE138F88 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:12:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C99F3E0AA9; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:12:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (ccs.covici.com [70.109.53.110]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D7B49E0998 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:12:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.8/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s1SJC4Jq001508 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:12:04 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] what is lvmetad? X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:12:04 -0500 Message-ID: <1507.1393614724@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 90a53630-7c39-43e5-868b-826743ec3279 X-Archives-Hash: f16a860fc9f6ab7157b0f95b17962387 In the newest lvm, there is something called lvmetad, but it won't start because /run/lvm is missing. When I created by hand, it then started, but when I then started lvm which would not start without lvmetad, it said lvmetad was started, but disabled. Can anyone tell me what is going on here? Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com