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 C1338139084 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:47:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82D5FE09EA; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:47:11 +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 92603E09B0 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:47:10 +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 s1SJl9pu006567 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:47:09 -0500 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what is lvmetad? In-reply-to: <5310E11A.8000401@gmail.com> References: <1507.1393614724@ccs.covici.com> <5310E11A.8000401@gmail.com> Comments: In-reply-to Alan McKinnon message dated "Fri, 28 Feb 2014 21:18:50 +0200." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:47:09 -0500 Message-ID: <6565.1393616829@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: 51fc7f53-705f-4289-ad81-6b9fe20bfcee X-Archives-Hash: 11b4e413ca6bee9aee637d4d26e5149f Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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? I did not ignore, but I could not find where use_lvmetad was and up till now it never made any difference, but I see where it is. but lvmetad would not start at all till I manually created /run/lvm. -- 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