> I did more playing around and I found out that that LVM source I’ve > downloaded is working fine out from box. These changes I made to the source > code were not necessary. > SLES version of LVM has to have some changes. > > > So I’ve checked what was installed with latest update for LVM and here it is > (I guess I should have done it on the first place) : > > patch: SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-314 > - LVM2 does not support unpartitioned DASD device which has special > > │ > │ format in the first 2 tracks and will silently discard LVM2 label > > │ > │ information written to it by pvcreate. Mark this type of device as > > │ > │ unsupported. (bsc#894202) > > and from suse.com <http://suse.com/> > Skip unpartitioned DASD devices, they are not supported. (bsc#894202) > > I guess that’s it. They wanted to fix things If I understand this correctly > but this might put in danger some users with older versions. > > Thanks > Gregory Powiedziuk
They probably wanted to change it only for pvcreate so it would be possible to create lvms only on partitioned disks. But doing this change in a shared function, they crippled also pvscan so using lvms already existing on a not partitioned devices became impossible. Gregory Powiedziuk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
