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 B384C138F88 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:19:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0C7FE0ADD; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:19:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f176.google.com (mail-we0-f176.google.com [74.125.82.176]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7B1EEE0ABA for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:19:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f176.google.com with SMTP id x48so922203wes.35 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:19:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NbP8F+J36er71cRhbSC24HyeIt0+eYg1CuaajeoZ0Dw=; b=YhFrBu592pZKzHNrf97ievyuYbzO9YCqlv3j+T9Ou2RChXruU21IyxlZuU93JW/abZ vNzxFSrsGDY8G2/Eyypxp4Ms9hBeqDflWGjDBM6VGixgpUQqa2VbJ6U/IduY7c9LI2EL QKyyQDpJT/Czs0KrzZgd9e2zP/w7QEksrjKrneSFvbiAQDE6XZDa7WXbGUQYAb2AMNdu MfEK642jz59/ZQvnDMhkR2xONp1Gts3WeHUJZiBnrWLr1gV5GcM4STOeNLMvcyD5Csn0 pKMBMJinR0/ko/gczEXTx3LguHddahIPW8W+RSzgsv2r+c2utjAXNwtv8ybL9Nb8snew ycmg== X-Received: by 10.180.164.174 with SMTP id yr14mr4168383wib.18.1393615148714; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:19:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-127-208.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.127.208]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id d6sm8634920wic.9.2014.02.28.11.19.07 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:19:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5310E11A.8000401@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 21:18:50 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what is lvmetad? References: <1507.1393614724@ccs.covici.com> In-Reply-To: <1507.1393614724@ccs.covici.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 73c31726-f7b5-46a1-ab40-2aa54d00f0d1 X-Archives-Hash: 202336e18a233e90fa8d3bd068598ae4 On 28/02/2014 21:12, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > 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. > the ebuild issues an elog: * Make sure the "lvm" init script is in the runlevels: * # rc-update add lvm boot * * Make sure to enable lvmetad in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf if you want * to enable lvm autoactivation and metadata caching. Did you notice it and follow it? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com