Comment 3 for bug 282189

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Alasdair G. Kergon (agk2) wrote : Re: [Bug 282189] Re: "dmsetup deps" does not accurately report LVM dependencies, can cause boot failure

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:13:33PM -0000, Hugo Josefson wrote:
> I can confirm that this bug affects me too in Ubuntu 8.10.
> For me, the scenario is a little different (newly installed system where
> the VG has many PV:s, of which only one's extents are in use). dmsetup
> deps still only reports the PV whose extents are in use, and not all
> PV:s that are required for the VG to start.

Surely that's it working as designed?
dmsetup tells you about mapped devices available in the running kernel.

Alasdair
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