Trying out Mandrake 8.2 beta 3 I had some irregularities happen while doing custom partitioning.
I was delighted to see LVM support in the Expert section of DiskDrake. I was sad to not be able to mount / into a partition inside a logical volume. I created a logical volume and then tried creating 2 RAID 5 partions inside the Logical Volume and a third RAID 5 partition outside the LV all partitions and logical volumes being on the same hard drive. This seemed to confuse things royally. I had a great deal of difficulty deleting the partitions created within the logical volume. I ran into division by zero errors when doing so. A key to successfull Logical Volume work seems to be rebooting after committing major changes to the partition table (such as after creating new logical volumes.) I was eventually able to delete the partitions and the logical volume itself after a reboot. FIREWIRE... Is there a way to support firewire devices durring the installation. For low budget large storage arrays I know of no better solution than to create an array of Firewire storage devices using the Logical Volume Manager. Here's a link that talks about supporting firewire storage on Mandrake. http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1501&lang=en I envision having multiple firewire cards with up to 63 hard drives interfaced per card. Also striping data across interfaces to increase IO performance. Also some RPMs that I flaged for inclusion in the install didn't work for some reason. I received messages saying they could not be installed continue Y/N. The packages I can remember were: zip snort snort-scarf WindowMaker Python-docs Quanta Sawfish-themes Screem vnc-doc xmms-skins xpdf xtraceroute Now after the RPMS were installed it reported that some of the packages were not installed. Clicked OK. A Message came up saying "No HDLISTS FOUND". After this point it sent me back to the Partitioning section. Logical Volume Management is _REALLY_ important to businesses. Just as important as Journaling filesystems are. Logical volume Managers allow you to "snapshot" your filesystem in time so you can backup your filesystems exactly as they were when you took the snapshot. And while the backup is going you can continue to modify databases for example without worrying about the backup becomming inconsistant. All that's required is to stop transactions on the databases for a moment whiles you take the snapshot. The other really cool feature about LVM is that it allows you to modify virtual partitions which span multiple physical disks on the fly. I hope that my observations are helpful here. Sincerly, Joe Baker Systems Administrator Wauwatosa Police Department 414-471-8430 x 106 Office 414-237-9211 Pager 414-788-8284 Cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Text Messaging
