On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:45:30AM -0600, Pete Flugstad wrote: > Hello! > > I'm wondering if I can use LVM (or rather Device Mapper) to provide a > "chunked" or "split" view of a device (such as a block device or partition). > > Specifically if I have a block device (i.e. /dev/hde1) that is 60GB, and > I want to view it in 1GB chunks, say /dev/hde1.000 to /dev/hde1.059 or > something like that. That way I could, for example, setup a FTP or HTTP > server to view these and download them over the network (of course I'd > need to modify the server to be able to read from a block device), > rather than having to download the entire 60 GB block device. > > Is it possible to use DM/LVM to provide a view of the device like this? > I am using Linux 2.6.X. Yep, you can do this with either LVM (taking care not to put a label on the PV) or just with dm by setting up simple tables with a single linear mapping in them (see the dmsetup man page). - Joe _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
