[TriLUG] Question for you LVM users

[Joseph Tate]

Steven Blanchard wrote:

> Redhat linux has a catch-22 for LVM in the init scripts, it will not 
> initialize lvm unless it is present in the kernel, since lvm is loaded 
> as a module, it is not initalized... the easiest way i have found is 
> to add the following lines to /etc/modules.conf:
>
> alias block-major-58 lvm-mod
> post-install block-major-58 /sbin/vgscan && /sbin/vgchange -a y
> pre-remove block-major-58 /sbin/vgchange -a n
> alias block-major-109 lvm-mod
> post-install block-major-109 /sbin/vgscan && /sbin/vgchange -a y
> pre-remove block-major-109 /sbin/vgchange -a n
>
Is that redundant?  Why the two different blocks?  58 and 109?  Are they 
for two different LVM volumes?

Joseph