[TriLUG] Question for you LVM users

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 15:09, Steven Blanchard wrote:
> The alias for the block-major-58 and char-major-109 are in most of the 
> lvm howtos i've seen, and i cant readliy give an explaination. as for 
> the post-install and pre-remove, I added that because I was having 
> problems with the default redhat 7.3 init scripts, and to me, editing 
> /etc/modules.conf was easier than editing the init scripts

LVM block devices are block devices with major 58.  The /dev/lvm device
is used by the lvm tools for doing various ioctl()'s on before volumes
exist and is a character device with major 109.

HTH,

Jeremy