linux-kernel - Re: [dm-devel] linux-2.6.35+ causes LVM to fail with " device-mapper: version ioctl failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device"

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Message-ID: <20100814161617.GK26032@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:16:17 +0100
From:	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>
To:	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	device-mapper development <dm-devel@...hat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, lvm-devel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] linux-2.6.35+ causes LVM to fail with "
	device-mapper: version ioctl failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device"

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 04:54:01PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> The only one there possibly relevant is 7e507eb6432afdd798d4c6dccf949b8c43ef151c.

I'm guessing you could have a configuration not covered by the latest userspace
libdevmapper - not handling some combination of kernel+userspace+initrd packages
correctly.  We already dealt with one udev+initrd combination that failed last
week.
 
Alasdair

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