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The biggest issue I saw with 2.4/LVM was partitioning the disks. Putting LVM |
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partitions on the drives gave me strange results from "fdisk -l" but they |
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seemed to work fine. |
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This was on an U30 with an external disk array (2 x 18GB) and a 9GB internal |
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as root and boot. The LVM partitions were on the external array. I striped |
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/var and /usr across those drives. |
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> is there any down side to the 2.4 approach? does it do the same stuff? |
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> On 2/20/06, freshy98 <freshy98@×××.net> wrote: |
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> > Oh nice! I will try that one my self instead of the 2.4 approach. |
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> > Tom |
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> > Gustavo Zacarias wrote: |
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> > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- |
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> > >Hash: SHA1 |
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> > >Nick Smith wrote: |
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> > >>can you do LVM on sparc? the dm-mod module for it doesnt seem to |
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> > >>exsist on the install cd. how do you go about using it |
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> with sparc |
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> > >>if it can be done? |
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> > >> |
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> > >> |
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> > >Yeah, dm-mod is a 2.6 (and lvm2) thingie. |
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> > >For 2.4 you use lvm-user (instead of lvm2) and lvm-mod |
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> (instead of dm-mod). |
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> > >If you want 2.6/lvm2 you can try my experimental (as in |
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> doesn't work |
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> > >on many machine models and i know and i'm not about to fix it atm |
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> > >since it's silo having issues) livecd @ |
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> > >http://dev.gentoo.org/~gustavoz/sparc/experimental/ |
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> > > |
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