Thanks. The last thing I want to do, as you know, is blaze a new trail through Linux. I saw your response about software RAID, I'll look at that. But until I get z/VM in house to replace VIF, it seems I'm doomed to be a pioneer no matter what I do. --- "Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chet, > > You're being a pioneer here (also known as arrow magnet). Red Hat > decided > to "leave out" LVM in their 7.2 distribution because of concerns > about it's > stability. For your purposes, you can accomplish the same thing > using > "software raid0" to aggregate volumes. There are a couple of > examples of > that on linuxvm.org, most likely in the archives for March, and > April. > > Mark Post > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chet Norris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 1:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: LVM Install > > > From what I've read in this list server, LVM is the best way to > concatenate dasd volumes together to create a large pool of space. I > need to create a 40GB pool. I've been trying to get LVM installed on > my RH 7.2 image, but I keep ruuning into problems. According to the > LVM > HOWTO doc I printed from www.sistina.com, LVM is part of RH 2.4, but > I > saw an email on the list server that said it wasn't. I've copied the > tar files to my s/390 machine and unpacked them. I've run ./configure > --with-kernel_dir=. as the INSTALL doc said. The next step says to > put > on kernel patches. The PATCHES doc says I only need to apply one > patch > because LVM is already part of 2.4, the lvm-1.0-2.4.9.patch. This > file > isn't part of the unpacked tar file. It also talks about doing a "cd > /usr/src/linux", since RH 2.4 doesn't have LVM, where should I point > before applying patches, if necessary? > > ===== > Chet Norris > Marriott International,Inc. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
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