Re: Logical Volume Manager and RAID

2006-01-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Noah Dain wrote: > > How does RAID interact with LVM? Do I place RAID on top of LVM or the > > other way around? LVM on top of md RAID (there is also device-mapper RAID, now), so lvm has PVs that are md devices. > > Or am I worrying unnecessarily: Is it possible to mix them

Re: Logical Volume Manager and RAID

2006-01-18 Thread Noah Dain
On 1/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm planning to set up an array of two hard disks as a software RAID in > and AMD64 box. TO have some flexibility, I'm also planning to use LVM. > How does RAID interact with LVM? Do I place RAID on top of LVM or the > other way around? >

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-29 Thread Andy Saxena
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 10:08:50AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: [a whole bunch of things about LVM, initrd, etc.] Thanks to you and Shyamal for the information. As always, I learnt something new. I guess I need more knowledge on LVM and initrd. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan> The issue that concerns me with LVS is is that it has a Alan> command to create an initrd image for booting. I suspect Alan> that it is creating something that loads the lvm modules in Alan> the kernel, but the documen

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-28 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Andy" == Andy Saxena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andy> I don't know jack about LVM, but from reading other posts Andy> and docs it seems that having the root partition on a Andy> filesystem that is loaded as a module is generally a bad Andy> idea. It makes perfect sense to

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-28 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 28 September 2002 6:38 am, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:20:36PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I "think" because I have ext3 as a root partition and am using the debian > > kernel which has that as a module, debian's installation of the kernel > > has created an ini

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-27 Thread Andy Saxena
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:20:36PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > I "think" because I have ext3 as a root partition and am using the debian > kernel which has that as a module, debian's installation of the kernel has > created an initrd image which it loads on boot and uses to load the ext3 > mo

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 26 September 2002 6:09 pm, Q. Gong wrote: > I converted my root file system to LVM. A Linux partition (e.g. using ext2 > file system) is needed for /boot, containing the kernel files > which support LVM. I previously posted a message including all detailed > steps. > I went back and r

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-26 Thread Q. Gong
I converted my root file system to LVM. A Linux partition (e.g. using ext2 file system) is needed for /boot, containing the kernel files which support LVM. I previously posted a message including all detailed steps. Good luck, Qian On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Tuesday 24 Sept

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-25 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 10:19 am, Tom Allison wrote: > Can you implement LVM on an already installed system? I did, although I did not replace my root partition, I did with all the others. The reason I didn't try and replace the root partition was that the docs says you need to create an

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-09-24T14:28:50Z, Emil Hägerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do you switch the root partition to lvm? I left my root partition untouched, so I can't give advice for that final step. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-24 Thread Emil Hägerlund
Re: > Can you implement LVM on an already installed system? Re: I did. How do you switch the root partition to lvm? (I have only "/" left) And after that, what modifications do I need to do in /etc/lilo.conf for the boot to be a success? Yours Emil -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org

Re: Logical Volume Manager

2002-09-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-09-24T09:19:29Z, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can you implement LVM on an already installed system? I did. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE