OK w/me. -dB linux-lvm-request@sistina.com wrote: > > Send linux-lvm mailing list submissions to > linux-lvm@sistina.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > linux-lvm-request@sistina.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of linux-lvm digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Backup costs (was: LVM reimplementationre) (Scott Laird) > 2. Re: File Corruption on LVM LV's in same VG (Erik Zweers) > 3. Logical Volume disappears (Wolfe, Gordon W) > 4. Re: Logical Volume disappears (Andreas Dilger) > 5. Re: Logical Volume disappears (Heinz J . Mauelshagen) > 6. Re: Logical Volume disappears (Heinz J . Mauelshagen) > 7. Re: Logical Volume disappears ('Andreas Dilger') > 8. using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM. (Terje Kvernes) > 9. Re: using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM. (Chad C. Walstrom) > 10. Re: using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM. (James Hawtin) > 11. Re: using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM. (Andreas Dilger) > 12. RE: using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM. (John Moser) > > --__--__-- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 08:23:42 -0800 (PST) > From: Scott Laird <laird@internap.com> > To: <linux-lvm@sistina.com> > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Backup costs (was: LVM reimplementationre) > Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > I just bought 10TB for $4.5/GB. That's 5 4U systems, each with 16 160GB > drives and one GigE interface. A couple similar systems in my lab (14 > 100GB drives) benchmark at 110 MB/sec reading, 85 MB/sec writing with > software RAID5. With NFS over GigE, I can get 50 MB/sec sustained before > PCI bus contention starts to be a problem. > > You can almost certainly spend less money if you try hard enough, but I > wanted systems that wouldn't need 24x7 handholding :-). > > Scott > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Richard Barbara wrote: > > > > Does anyone have an opinion as to what the cost of storage should be (say > > in $ /Gbyte) to enable wider use of 'direct to disk' backup? > > Would tape emulation help in this issue? > > > > ---------- > > > From: Jeff Layton <laytonjb@bellsouth.net> > > > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Backup costs (was: LVM reimplementationre) > > > Date: Thursday, 7 February 2002 13:04 > > > > > > James Mello wrote: > > > > > > > > Large amounts of data brings in even more issues. How do > > > > > you stream Petabytes of data to tape in a resonable of time? > > > > > Unless you spend HUGE amounts of money to buy multiple > > > > > silos to handle slices of the data and put in a fantastic network > > > > > to handle the traffic, you can't backup in a reasonable amount > > > > > of time. In this case, disk is your only choice. The data size > > > > > break point between disk and tape depends on lots of things, > > > > > but that point is moving downward all the time (perhaps in > > > > > the Terabyte range). > > > > > > > > Petabytes are another matter entirely. If you must absolutely have that > > > > much data backed up, you start looking at more exotic solutions. > > Backing > > > > up solely to disk is *way* to expensive, hence the wonderful, but of > > > > poorly implemented idea of HSM.... Disk and tape :) > > > > > > Yes, HSM has never panned out the way it was supposed to. > > > However, try backing up Petabytes with tape in a reasonable > > > amount of time. While I've never configure such a system, > > > the numbers from systems I have seen indicate that disk is > > > much cheaper than tape (even if tape is a feasible solution > > > because of speed). > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Cheers > > > > -- James > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > linux-lvm mailing list > > > > linux-lvm@sistina.com > > > > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > linux-lvm mailing list > > > linux-lvm@sistina.com > > > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-lvm mailing list > > linux-lvm@sistina.com > > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 2 > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] File Corruption on LVM LV's in same VG > From: Erik Zweers <zweers@execulink.com> > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > Date: 07 Feb 2002 12:39:00 -0500 > Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > There are no error messages on the console. This box does do a fair > amount of work and has no other issues. The box has a second VG > consisting of SCSI drives. If there were memory problems I would expect > this VG to contain errors too. > > I did a MD5sum on the physical device twice and it returned the same sum > (while doing this on a file in a filesystem under LVM returns different > values each time). > > Are there any good indepth tools that could analyze the structure of the > volume? Everything I've seen sofar seems to just offer a summary. The > box still has not been rebooted as I want to understand the problem > first. I'm looking at using LVM for a production server and need to > find out whats wrong to go ahead with that project. > > On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 13:41, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > On Feb 05, 2002 13:11 -0500, Erik Zweers wrote: > > > The system was repaired and believed to be running properly, until > > > yesterday where we discovered that some of our ISO's were wrong, > > > consistently wrong in inconsistent locations. I've pasted in a record > > > of the symptoms. If anyone has any advice on what else to diagnose (if > > > your intrested in what is wrong) or how to repair It would be greatly > > > appreciated. > > > > I would suspect RAM or IDE problems. If LVM is broken, it will stay > > broken, and if it is working it will stay working in the absence of > > other problems. The failure symptoms would not look like this. > > > > > I have not rebooted the machine yet, wanting to be sure that any > > > diagnoses that can be done is done. > > > > Any output in dmesg? > > > > > [root@ike iso]# cmp -l enigma-i386-disc1.iso ~carl/enigma-i386-disc1.iso > > > 2549832 77 67 > > > 13431928 177 167 > > > 14489440 376 366 > > > 27451404 177 173 > > > 33149724 376 336 > > > 86298228 177 167 > > > 116907524 372 332 > > > 119130964 77 67 > > > 121124171 376 356 > > > > > > > > > [root@ike iso]# cmp -l enigma-i386-disc1.iso ~carl/enigma-i386-disc1.iso > > > 2549832 77 67 > > > 11455071 177 167 > > > 13431928 177 167 > > > 18043044 277 273 > > > 24780964 277 273 > > > 86298228 177 167 > > > 94133044 370 330 > > > 106966431 177 167 > > > > Looks exclusively like single-bit errors. Either RAM or IDE cable/driver. > > If it was RAM you would also have oopses or errors elsewhere. Try turning > > off UDMA on the drive, update the IDE driver, new cable, etc. > > > > > | wc -l 62 > > > [root@ike iso]# ls -l enigma-i386-disc1.iso > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 677961728 Feb 4 20:31 > > > enigma-i386-disc1.iso > > > > > > [root@ike iso]# fsck -n /dev/ide/iso > > > Parallelizing fsck version 1.23 (15-Aug-2001) > > > e2fsck 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > > > Warning! /dev/ide/iso is mounted. > > > /dev/ide/iso: clean, 24/1281696 files, 1351397/2560000 blocks > > > > Given that you only have single-bit error rates in the order of 1/10^7, > > the chance of such an error happening in the ext2 metadata is unlikely. > > > > Cheers, Andreas > > -- > > Andreas Dilger > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > > > > > > --__--__-- > > Message: 3 > From: "Wolfe, Gordon W" <gordon.w.wolfe@boeing.com> > To: "IBM-linux-lvm (E-mail)" <linux-lvm@sistina.com> > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:20:28 -0800 > Subject: [linux-lvm] Logical Volume disappears > Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > > I'm having a very strange problem. Perhaps you guys can help me. > > > > > > I needed to make a public repository for the contents of five CD's, so I > > set up a Linux server using SuSE 2.2.16 on S/390 under z/VM. For five > > CD's, I figured two volumes ought to hold the contents. An rpm query > > shows lvm-0.8-157, which is what came with the SuSe distribution. > > > > I added two 3390-3 full-pack volumes to Linux and did a dasdfmt on them. > > I went into YAST and created a logical volume group "vgcd" and a logical > > volume "lvcd" using these two volumes. > > I did a mke2fs on the logical volume /dev/vgcd/lvcd > > I was able to mount /dev/vgcd/lvcd as /mnt and was able to do a "df' and > > see them and copy some files to them > > > > So far, so good. Everything looking just fine. > > > > Now, the wierd part: > > I manually umounted /dev/vgcd/lvcd, shut down and rebooted Linux. > > After the reboot, the device /dev/vgcd/lvcd does not exist. > > vgscan says "vgscan -- no volume groups found" > > pvscan says "pvscan -- no valid physical volumes found" > > vgck says "vgck -- no volume groups found" > > pvdisplay /dev/vgcd/lvcd says "invalid physical volume name > > "/dev/vgcd/lvcd" > > ls /dev/lvcd says "No such file or directory" > > If I go back into YAST to do it all over, it says I can't create volume > > group "vgcd" because it already exists. But it doesn't show up in the > > list of volume groups. > > > > > > Can any of you point me in the right direction to see what the problem is? > > > > > "Never trust any computer you can lift." > Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 > VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > > --__--__-- > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:58:36 -0700 > From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> > To: "Wolfe, Gordon W" <gordon.w.wolfe@boeing.com> > Cc: "IBM-linux-lvm (E-mail)" <linux-lvm@sistina.com> > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Logical Volume disappears > Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > On Feb 07, 2002 10:20 -0800, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: > > I needed to make a public repository for the contents of five CD's, so I > > set up a Linux server using SuSE 2.2.16 on S/390 under z/VM. For five > > CD's, I figured two volumes ought to hold the contents. An rpm query > > shows lvm-0.8-157, which is what came with the SuSe distribution. > > OK, well lvm-0.8 is _very_ old and undoubtably has a _huge_ number of > bugs. You should be able to use the recent LVM version on 2.2 kernels > still. > > > > I manually umounted /dev/vgcd/lvcd, shut down and rebooted Linux. > > After the reboot, the device /dev/vgcd/lvcd does not exist. > > vgscan says "vgscan -- no volume groups found" > > pvscan says "pvscan -- no valid physical volumes found" > > You probably need to add the names of the DASD devices to the list > that LVM searches. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > > --__--__-- > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:03:16 +0100 > From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com> > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Logical Volume disappears > Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > In case /dev/vgcd/ still exists, "rm -rf" it and retry. > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:20:28AM -0800, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: > > > I'm having a very strange problem. Perhaps you guys can help me. > > > > > > > > > I needed to make a public repository for the contents of five CD's, so I > > > set up a Linux server using SuSE 2.2.16 on S/390 under z/VM. For five > > > CD's, I figured two volumes ought to hold the contents. An rpm query > > > shows lvm-0.8-157, which is what came with the SuSe distribution. > > > > > > I added two 3390-3 full-pack volumes to Linux and did a dasdfmt on them. > > > I went into YAST and created a logical volume group "vgcd" and a logical > > > volume "lvcd" using these two volumes. > > > I did a mke2fs on the logical volume /dev/vgcd/lvcd > > > I was able to mount /dev/vgcd/lvcd as /mnt and was able to do a "df' and > > > see them and copy some files to them > > > > > > So far, so good. Everything looking just fine. > > > > > > Now, the wierd part: > > > I manually umounted /dev/vgcd/lvcd, shut down and rebooted Linux. > > > After the reboot, the device /dev/vgcd/lvcd does not exist. > > > vgscan says "vgscan -- no volume groups found" > > > pvscan says "pvscan -- no valid physical volumes found" > > > vgck says "vgck -- no volume groups found" > > > pvdisplay /dev/vgcd/lvcd says "invalid physical volume name > > > "/dev/vgcd/lvcd" > > > ls /dev/lvcd says "No such file or directory" > > > If I go back into YAST to do it all over, it says I can't create volume > > > group "vgcd" because it already exists. But it doesn't show up in the > > > list of volume groups. > > > > > > > > > Can any of you point me in the right direction to see what the problem is? > > > > > > > > "Never trust any computer you can lift." > > Gordon Wolfe, Ph.D. (425)865-5940 > > VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-lvm mailing list > > linux-lvm@sistina.com > > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > -- > > Regards, > Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > *** Software bugs are stupid. > Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. > Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 > 56242 Marienrachdorf > Germany > Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 > FAX 924446 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > --__--__-- > > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:04:19 +0100 > From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com> > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Logical Volume disappears > Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:58:36AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > On Feb 07, 2002 10:20 -0800, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: > > > I needed to make a public repository for the contents of five CD's, so I > > > set up a Linux server using SuSE 2.2.16 on S/390 under z/VM. For five > > > CD's, I figured two volumes ought to hold the contents. An rpm query > > > shows lvm-0.8-157, which is what came with the SuSe distribution. > > > > OK, well lvm-0.8 is _very_ old and undoubtably has a _huge_ number of > > bugs. You should be able to use the recent LVM version on 2.2 kernels > > still. > > That's true, but this should at least work. > > > > > > > I manually umounted /dev/vgcd/lvcd, shut down and rebooted Linux. > > > After the reboot, the device /dev/vgcd/lvcd does not exist. > > > vgscan says "vgscan -- no volume groups found" > > > pvscan says "pvscan -- no valid physical volumes found" > > > > You probably need to add the names of the DASD devices to the list > > that LVM searches. > > SuSE's S/390 Linux supports them. > > > > > Cheers, Andreas > > -- > > Andreas Dilger > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-lvm mailing list > > linux-lvm@sistina.com > > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > -- > > Regards, > Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > *** Software bugs are stupid. > Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. > Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 > 56242 Marienrachdorf > Germany > Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 > FAX 924446 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > --__--__-- > > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:28:40 -0700 > From: "'Andreas Dilger'" <adilger@turbolabs.com> > To: "Wolfe, Gordon W" <gordon.w.wolfe@boeing.com> > Cc: linux-lvm@sistina.com > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Logical Volume disappears > Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > On Feb 07, 2002 12:59 -0800, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote: > > That's the whole problem. The CD's I need to have on line are the new SuSE > > Linux SLES7 which has the new LVM on it. I can't install it until I get the > > data on the CDs mounted where I can use it, which means I need LVM first. > > Well, rather than configring your DASD to be logical volumes, then copying > CD images there, you could just create 4 minidisks, copy the CD images into > the raw devices, and mount them directly. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > > --__--__-- > > Message: 8 > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > Organization: the friends of LVM > From: Terje Kvernes <terjekv@math.uio.no> > Date: 07 Feb 2002 22:33:46 +0100 > Subject: [linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM. > Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > first, I'm sorry for asking here, but I'm close enough on topic (I > hope :) and I know there are bright heads who deal with linux at > this level out there. I've also looked through google, and at the > kernel IDE-documentation. and the little thing that lingers is > 128GiB. > > fdisk is only able to address 128GiB, that's rather obvious. if I > make one partition, it's about that size, and if I make two > partitions, the first one 100GiB, the last one will only be about > 28GiB. if I pvcreate the device itself it helps a little, but not > much. /proc/lvm/global then returns the size as 134152192KB. > > now, I've added SCSI-devices that where > 500GiB with ease into LVM, > but here I stumble. is there some easy solution out there that I've > missed? > > the box currently runs vanilla 2.4.16, only patched with LVM-1.0.1 > from 26/11. patches or anything people want to toss at this will be > highly appreciated. we have two of these beasts from Maxtor, and > stand to loose about 60GiB of space, which isn't all that neat. > > -- > Terje > > --__--__-- > > Message: 9 > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:08:32 -0600 > From: "Chad C. Walstrom" <chewie@wookimus.net> > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM. > Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:33:46PM +0100, Terje Kvernes wrote: > > fdisk is only able to address 128GiB, that's rather obvious. if I > > make one partition,=20 > > Why make a partition at all? Why not just make a physical volume out of > the whole disk? > > NAME > pvcreate - initialize a disk or partition for use by LVM > > SYNOPSIS > pvcreate [-d|--debug] [-f[f]|--force [--force]] [-y|--yes] [-h|--he= > lp] > [-v|--verbose] [-V|--version] PhysicalVolume [PhysicalVolume...] > > DESCRIPTION > pvcreate initializes PhysicalVolume for later use by the Logical Vol= > ume > Manager (LVM). Each PhysicalVolume can be a disk partition, wh= > ole > disk, meta device, or loopback file. For DOS disk partitions, the p= > ar=AD > tition id must be set to 0x8e using fdisk(8), cfdisk(8), or a equi= > va=AD > lent. For whole disk devices only the partition table must be eras= > ed, > which will effectively destroy all data on that disk. This can be d= > one > by zeroing the first sector with: > > dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3DPhysicalVolume bs=3D512 count=3D1 > > Continue with vgcreate(8) to create a new volume group on PhysicalV= > ol=AD > ume, or vgextend(8) to add PhysicalVolume to an existing volume gro= > up. > > --=20 > Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie > http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr > Get my public key, ICQ#, etc. $(mailx -s 'get info' chewie@wookimus.net) > > --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > Content-Disposition: inline > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE8YvrgDMcLGCBsWv0RAncZAJ9fPwWiARodVV1zXxTT0DkaAFBaBgCfZnOq > E0Cce/2D6Dpk+QpPbKUh/Zw= > =/9v7 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c-- > > --__--__-- > > Message: 10 > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 22:13:38 +0000 (GMT) > From: James Hawtin <oolon@ankh.org> > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM. > Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > On 7 Feb 2002, Terje Kvernes wrote: > > > the box currently runs vanilla 2.4.16, only patched with LVM-1.0.1 > > from 26/11. patches or anything people want to toss at this will be > > highly appreciated. we have two of these beasts from Maxtor, and > > stand to loose about 60GiB of space, which isn't all that neat. > > > > Whats your Extent size? if its the default 4MB that allows you to address > 256GB in that volume group.... Please do a vgdisplay -v > > You only use that disk for linux? do you need it to be partitioned at all? > Do you want the whole of the disk to be available under LVM? You could do > your pvcreate on the whole device that would get arround partition table > addressing problems. > > James > > --__--__-- > > Message: 11 > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:18:11 -0700 > From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM. > Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > On Feb 07, 2002 22:33 +0100, Terje Kvernes wrote: > > [ Re: IDE 128GB disk limits ] > > > > now, I've added SCSI-devices that where > 500GiB with ease into LVM, > > but here I stumble. is there some easy solution out there that I've > > missed? > > > > the box currently runs vanilla 2.4.16, only patched with LVM-1.0.1 > > from 26/11. patches or anything people want to toss at this will be > > highly appreciated. we have two of these beasts from Maxtor, and > > stand to loose about 60GiB of space, which isn't all that neat. > > This is a kernel IDE driver limit. You need to patch with Andre Hedrik's > IDE patches to support IDE devices over this size. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > > --__--__-- > > Message: 12 > From: "John Moser" <jmoser@erc.wisc.edu> > To: <linux-lvm@sistina.com> > Subject: RE: [linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM. > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:45:03 -0600 > Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > > Is this specific to 2.4.X kernels? I'm running 2.5.0, and I just noticed > that the 160 gig drives I was using are also partitioned at only 128Gigs. > > -John Moser > > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com]On > Behalf Of Andreas Dilger > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:18 PM > To: linux-lvm@sistina.com > Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] using 160GB IDE drives under linux with LVM. > > On Feb 07, 2002 22:33 +0100, Terje Kvernes wrote: > > [ Re: IDE 128GB disk limits ] > > > > now, I've added SCSI-devices that where > 500GiB with ease into LVM, > > but here I stumble. is there some easy solution out there that I've > > missed? > > > > the box currently runs vanilla 2.4.16, only patched with LVM-1.0.1 > > from 26/11. patches or anything people want to toss at this will be > > highly appreciated. we have two of these beasts from Maxtor, and > > stand to loose about 60GiB of space, which isn't all that neat. > > This is a kernel IDE driver limit. You need to patch with Andre Hedrik's > IDE patches to support IDE devices over this size. > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ > http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > > End of linux-lvm Digest _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
