Hei why does nobody try to help me [linux-lvm] PBs with LVM over software RAID ( and XFS ? ext2 reiserfs?) <http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2001-September/008611.html> i've done pretty much trys and almost nobody seems to wont to help me am i invisable svetljo Ray Miller wrote: >On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 04:35:40PM +0200, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: > >>Hi, >>It seems that you use a fresh 2.4.9 kernel. In kernel 2.4.9, the version >>of LVM is 0.9.0-beta2, which is what you get with dmesg or cat /proc/lvm >>Then you installed tools from 1.0.1rc2. You must upgrade your kernel >>with LVM 1.0.1rc2 if you want all that to be consistent (or use beta2 >>tools, which is not the good way IMHO). >> >>Recompile 2.4.9 with LVM-1.0.1rc2 and you'll be OK. >> > >I applied the 1.0.1-rc2 patch to a clean 2.4.9 kernel tree and was >able to create a logical volume on top of s/w RAID 1 without any >trouble. However, a bonnie++ run on an ext2 (or ext3) filesystem on >the logical volume caused the system to lock up, with kswapd going >uninterruptible. I suspect a VM (rather than LVM) problem, as a >similar lock-up occurred on another system with 2.4.8 kernel and no >LVM. We've reverted to kernel 2.4.7 on both systems and had no >problems since. >
