Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

[Peter Samuelson]

[Christoph Hellwig]
> It would be really good to have something devfs-like just for LVM in
> setups that don't use LVM, so we could avoid mounting root read/write
                        ^^^devfs?
> for device-creation.

For most people, read/write access to /dev is rarely needed -- how
often do you create new VGs or LVs?  How often do you run MAKEDEV or
vgscan?  Sometimes you need to change tty inodes but that's what
/dev/pts is for.

If you do need read-write access to /dev but not /, put it on a
separate filesystem.  Leave just a skeletal /dev in your root
filesystem, enough to bootstrap.

Peter