My AMD64 Gentoo system with sw raid/lvm runs quite fine now. One thing is
still bothering me: in the Gentoo document:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/lvm-p1.xml
it is said to put these lines in the shutdown rc script:
/sbin/vgchange -a n
and these in the startup rc script:
/sbin/vgscan
/sbin/vgchange -a y
What script is meant here? I can only think of the /etc/init.d/lvm script.
Here, the message "...init-script is written for baselayout-2!"
pops up each time, so the start function is not completed. There is
no /lib/librc.so on my system, too. So, are these hints in the
documentation outdated, or did I miss something important?
Chris

Chris Imker wrote:

> My AMD64 Gentoo system with sw raid/lvm runs quite fine now. One thing is
> still bothering me: in the Gentoo document:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/lvm-p1.xml
> it is said to put these lines in the shutdown rc script:
> /sbin/vgchange -a n
> and these in the startup rc script:
> /sbin/vgscan
> /sbin/vgchange -a y
> What script is meant here? I can only think of the /etc/init.d/lvm script.
> Here, the message "...init-script is written for baselayout-2!"
> pops up each time, so the start function is not completed. There is
> no /lib/librc.so on my system, too. So, are these hints in the
> documentation outdated, or did I miss something important?
> Chris

That document is not actively maintained, as stated at the beginning.
You probably want this document instead:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/lvm2.xml

Chris Imker wrote:
> My AMD64 Gentoo system with sw raid/lvm runs quite fine now. One thing is
> still bothering me: in the Gentoo document:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/lvm-p1.xml
> it is said to put these lines in the shutdown rc script:
> /sbin/vgchange -a n
> and these in the startup rc script:
> /sbin/vgscan
> /sbin/vgchange -a y
> What script is meant here? I can only think of the /etc/init.d/lvm script.

The files in /etc/init.d are executed by rc.
Do not edit your rc, you will have the chance of making your system refusing
from booting up. The documentation is quite outdated, if I recall it right,
LVM worked automatically back in Gentoo 1.4.


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//Aho