[mythtv-users] Anyone using LVM2 w/ ext3 for video storage

[Jeff Simpson]

On Apr 1, 2005 10:02 AM, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 31, 2005 11:28 PM, Devan Lippman <devan.lippman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I wanted to create a mount point that I could easily add capacity to
> > later as I needed.  To do this I created an LVM2 volume (currently
> > caontaining only one pv) and formatted ext3 over this.  When I went to
> > boot the machine up the next day it was unable to mount the volume or
> > even filecheck it.  I'm wondering if I rebuild this volume will this
> > become a common occurance?  If so is there anyone who's found a more
> > reliable solution?

I've had the same problem. Some reboots it complains about a "lock
initialisation" (complete with the british spelling) and can't mount
the volume. After a reboot it's fine, and since I hardly ever reboot,
I haven't worried about it. Maybe I should look into it further

 - Jeff