On 13/12/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:25:09PM +0000, Dick Davies wrote:
> > As far as I can tell, It's stored in the PVs themselves > > (when I boot ubuntu it finds all my Debian LVs, for example) . > > Without, I suppose, reading all your partitions and seeing it there > are files in /etc/lvm. My root filesystem is an LVM LV, so yeah, that's a pretty safe assumption :) > But I suppose that brings up another question -- is it possible to > remote-mount a PV from another machine (perhaps with NFS??) and > get that subsumed under LVM too? My guess is NO. Not that I'm planning > to do that... Remote-mounting a LV shouldn't be any trouble, of course. If you can export raw devices then that should be doable - that's probably where a SAN starts to come in, but I'm sure there are open source alternatives - http://www.drbd.org/ for instance. -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/
