linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 - 'lvm vgscan' busticated again...

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Date:	Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:08:52 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 - 'lvm vgscan' busticated again...

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:07:37 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm1/

This one died a horrid death at boot time - console log indicates it found the
hard drive OK, found the 2 partitions on it.  But when the initrd ran a
'lvm vgscan', it didn't find the LVM2 space on /dev/sda2, so it panic'ed when
it fell off the end of the initrd because the root= wasn't there.

My first guess for blame:

gregkh-driver-sysfs-allocate-inode-number-using-ida.patch

as that's awfully similar to gregkh-driver-sysfs-fix-i_ino-handling-in-sysfs.patch
that broke 'lvm vgscan' for me in the same way on 21-rc7-mm[12].

I'll hopefully get a chance to revert that one and test later today - a quick
'patch -p1 -R --dry-run' shows a number of conflicts that will need hand-fixing
at the very least.

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