On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 03:27:39PM -0000, Tony Lewis wrote: > Alasdair G. Kergon wrote: > > Surely that's it working as designed? > > dmsetup tells you about mapped devices available in the running kernel.
> I don't think so. "dmsetup deps" indicates the devices that your mapped > device depends on. dmsetup has no access to the userspace LVM metadata where the information you appear to be seeking is stored. It is simply a convenient command-line interface to the libdevmapper library that is a wrapper around the device-mapper ioctls. Use a query tool like 'pvs' to find out what PVs belong to the VG containing a particular LV. Alasdair -- a...@redhat.com -- "dmsetup deps" does not accurately report LVM dependencies, can cause boot failure https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282189 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
