On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:36:31AM -0500, Barry, Christopher wrote: > In the kernel config, in the RAID section I checked the LVM option to > be in the kernel. Is this correct? It seems that I'm getting LVM > version 1. Do/should I select this if I've patched the kernel? You should just check the 'device-mapper' option. > I try 'pvcreate /dev/sda' and get an error saying the device is not found. However, 'fdisk /dev/sda' shows the device exists. Check the device filters in /etc/lvm/config > Should I use pvcreate directly on the raw RAID 5 device, or partition it first? The raw device. > My plan was to use LVM2 to create several logical volumes on a > single RAID 5 device that I could adjust for size over time and create > a snapshot volume to extract backups from. Is this a good idea? I mean > is this a good use of LVM2, or not? Sounds fine. - Joe _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
