no idea if you can convert the data, but as you can resize, you can probably move stuff to lvm2 that way. > > great, dunno about testing. > > Copying large amounts of data atleast. > > Also fragmentation is an issue to keep in mind, so duplicate the disk, > don't cp the data over. > > The idea was to use dd to duplicate the system disk, then create a LV (LVM1 > metadata) outof two new disks which are then filled with data. After that, > I'll begin migrating to devicemapper but with lvm1 metadata. > > All tests will in the beginning be read tests (since that's more important > to me). These tests will be "time cat > /dev/null" aswell as accessing the > data remotely via NFS/SMB/FTP. After that test, I'll migrate to LVM2 > metadata, since thats what I want to use for real later, and then redo the > tests using the same data. > > I assume that it will be possible to migrate the metadata to LVM2? > > It's going to be a long evening/night :) > > /Henric > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
