On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 13:53 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > You mean the 1 extra command that's needed to assemble a VG?
>
> It wasn't that easy, that's what I did in the end:
> 1) vgchange -a n
> 2) vgexport -a
> 3) vgimport -a
> 4) vgscan --mknodes
> 5) vgchange -a y
#5 is all I've ever ha
On Sunday 22 March 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> [...]
>
> > The point is that LVM adds an extra layer of complexity.
> >
> > I used LVM paired with soft RAID, and when I needed to boot from a
> > liveCD I discovered that I had to rebuild the setup by hand.
>
> You mean the 1 extra command that's n
[...]
> The point is that LVM adds an extra layer of complexity.
>
> I used LVM paired with soft RAID, and when I needed to boot from a
> liveCD I discovered that I had to rebuild the setup by hand.
You mean the 1 extra command that's needed to assemble a VG?
On Sunday 22 March 2009 08:36:31 Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > With or without LVM if you lose a drive then you've lost the data on
> > it. LVM does have the capability of assembling a partially damaged
> > volume group just not a partially damaged logical volume which, when
> > you think about it,
On Sunday 22 March 2009 08:39:20 Francesco Talamona wrote:
> On Saturday 21 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > It's correct, and it also highlights just what a PITA it is to
> > manipulate traditional disk partitions. With lvm, this becomes a
> > breeze. With ZFS (we might see it one day) this be
090322 Francesco Talamona wrote:
> I used LVM paired with soft RAID & when I needed to boot from a liveCD
> I discovered that I had to rebuild the setup by hand.
I recently had a small problem with start-up caused by a PPP glitch
& accessed the box with System Rescue 1.1.0 on a CD.
I was surprised
On Saturday 21 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> It's correct, and it also highlights just what a PITA it is to
> manipulate traditional disk partitions. With lvm, this becomes a
> breeze. With ZFS (we might see it one day) this becomes invisible.
I thought it was already there:
sys-fs/zfs-fuse
On Sunday 22 March 2009, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 14:13 -0700, BRM wrote:
> > With all the words of LVM2 going on, I feel it is only appropriate
> > to also mention the risk.
> >
> > On a desktop I had installed LVM2 considering that I did need to
> > upgrade partitions every n
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