On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 18:27, Stroller wrote: > On 2/8/03 2:39 pm, "Wouter Vanwalleghem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 16:50, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > >> Hi! > >> > >> after some tryal i could manage having a running kernel 2.6-beta2 with > >> gentoo. Only one problem remaining: > >> > >> lvm isn't working any more. Is it missing from this kernel? > > > > Yes, lvm has been removed from the 2.6.x kernels. And I was unable to > > find lvm patches for the 2.6.x series on the Sistina site, home of the > > makers of linux-lvm. > > There are two things you can do, both of which require you to include > > the device-mapper in your kernel (in the Multi-device support (RAID and > > LVM) section): > > -LVM2 > > -EVMS (which is what I used) http://evms.sourceforge.net/ > > So I was just about to implement LVM for several disks (6gig - 10gig) on my > 2.4.20 system. The question is: is this advisable for future > compatibility..? > > I think I read here recently that LVM will be supported by LVM2, but what's > this EVMS stuff..? I trust LVM(2) isn't being phased out..? > > Stroller. >
EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System) is just another type of volume management. I believe it was originally developped by IBM, not sure though. As far as future compatibility is concerned, I think you'd have to check with the respective developers of EVMS and/or LVM2. Present versions of EVMS provide backwards compatibility with LVM1. My impression is that with the introduction of the device mapper block device in the kernel, things have simply been moved much more away from kernelspace and into userspace. Which one would be the best bet for the future, i.e. offer more compatibility with the 2.6.x series? Your guess is as good as mine. As for me, I would not want to do without the flexibility that volume management offers. So far I have only had positive experiences with LVM, apart from the minor shock when I found out that it was no longer a part of the future vanilla kernel series. So far I like EVMS as a replacement, LVM2 I haven't tried out yet. Wouter -- _____________________________________ Wouter Vanwalleghem Network Engineer BELNET The Belgian National Research Network Wetenschapsstraat 4 B-1000 Brussel Tel: +32 (0)2 790 3333 Fax: +32 (0)2 790 3334 mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our website : www.belnet.be _____________________________________
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