i'd like to commute my laptop system to lvm2, but before doing that i'd like some hints. first, i'd like to know if there's a way of passing an existing gentoo installation on a hda disk going through the sda stack (i needed to do that cause it was the only thing that fixed a problem with my ata disk going only on udma-33 after kernel 2.20) with sata-pata piix controller which is still experimental. i've taken a look around but haven't actually seen a document explaining if it is possible to do that and how to do that. second, i'd like to know if there's a need for a raid enabled motherboard and more than one disk to go on lvm. i only have a 100gb disk that i'd like to convert to lvm with no raid. and last, does it make sense doing a passage to lvm? i currently run into some problems with my root partition that gets filled and that i always have to watch the free space on it, so if i don't pass to raid i'll try to duplicate the partition on a greater one. i was forgetting: i'd like to use it on amd64. is there any problem? i have seen around some problems with lvm and amd64 some of them marked as solved, so i'd like to know if there could be problems with this arch. thanks for your help.
-- dott. ing. beso
