In EVMS a compatible volume is one which doesn't have the EVMS metadata on it. From what I've seen I'll simply make / and /boot compatible, standard volumes and then let EVMS handle the rest.
> > From: Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2005/05/02 Mon AM 12:08:46 EDT > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EVMS for /boot, / > > Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > > > I understand that you can put /boot and / on an LVM but it's not > > recommended. What about making / and /boot EVMS compatible volumes - > > will that work? > > > > I'm not sure what you mean by making 'compatible' volumes...a > partition/disk is either an LVM physical volume, or it isn't. There is > no 'compatible' mode. There is no problem to mix regular partitions > with LVM partitions on the same disk. Or, put another way, an LVM > physical volume can be any Linux block device, which includes whole > disks, primary or logical partitions, raid volumes, encrypted loop > volumes, dm-crypt volumes, etc. > > There is no problem putting / on an LVM volume. It is a bit more work, > because you have to make sure your initrd script runs the appropriate > commands to scan and activate the volumes. > > -Richard > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
