Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Quotas broken on DL?

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:

>>>>All LVs get mounted under /var when they're not "special".
>>>>You get a list of all available LVs in this folder: 
>>>>/proc/lvm/VGs/devil-linux/LVs/
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>>>>
>>>If we find a LV xyz in the VG devil-linux that is not listet
>>>in /etc/sysconfig/lvmtab we try to create /var/xyz/ and mount
>>>it there. Is that what you mean?
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>>>
>>Yes, it was my understanding that we exactly do this.
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>I can do that.  So the only entries in the default lvmtab file are:
>/home  /opt  &  swap ???
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>How is  /proc/lvm/VGs/devil-linux/LVs/  different than
>/dev/devil-linux/ ?   Or which is the best one to use?
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I don't know, pick one. ;-)

>>>>We also have do be carefull, I'm pretty sure a lot of people would 
>>>>try to mount an LV e.g. under /some-mount-point and then complain it 
>>>>doesn't work. Of course it will not work, because they can't create 
>>>>the mount point on the CD....
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>>>>
>>>That case can be handled by the script. We can even check the
>>>directory where the mount should occour and then check if the
>>>filesystem there is ro or rw. Good point. Better to prepare now
>>>before the users come asking for help where they shouldn't have
>>>gone in the first place ;-)
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>>>
>>yeah good point.
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>You can mount disks on existing directories on the CD, you just can't
>create new directories.  (i.e.  I can mount something under /mnt)
>
Yeah, but  you know that some users won't understand that logic. ;-)

>So, if the directory doesn't already exist, try to create it.  If it
>can't be created then display an error.
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Yeah that should be the easiest way.

Heiko