I am looking at installing the lvm layer on my file server, which is presently running woody. I have two 80GB hd's, one of which presently stores my /home partition (exported via both nfs and samba to the other systems on my home lan), and another which I just installed. (Actually, there's a third 80GB which stores /, /boot, /usr, /tmp, and /var, but I won't be including that in the lvm). Anyway, I figured the best approach was to turn both 80GB data drives into one 160gb logical volume. Since this is the main file store of everyone at home, stability is a very very high priority.
My questions are: 1) Which lvm package to install? There are two obvious choices, lvm10 and lvm2. While lvm2 is the new rewrite, which is supposedly "stable", it apparently lacks some features and according to the debian.org description of the package is not yet ready for production use. So, I assume I am correct in going for lvm10 at the present time? 2) If I do go with lvm10, will upgrading to lvm2 once it is ready for production use just be a matter of apt-get install'ing lvm2 and removing lvm10, or are there incompatibilities in the on-disk structure that would mean starting over from scratch? That would be a major problem once I have stuff scattered across 160GB of logical space on two physical drives. 3) lvm10 recommends kernel version 2.4.20; I am running the standard 2.4.18 on the server. It is crucial to do this upgrade? (I suppose it wouldn't hurt since 2.4.20 contains the driver for my server's onboard gigabit ethernet chip, which I am not presently using as 2.4.18 did not support it, but still, I like to do as little as possible to the fileserver.) 4) Is anyone using lvm on their system who can comment on success, failure, pitfalls, etc? Thanks for any input. nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
