On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 11:42:09AM +0200, Martijn Schoemaker wrote: > Luca Berra wrote: > >On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 01:37:26AM -0700, Michael wrote: > >>Is it okay to put everything, including /boot and other critical > >>Linux files on an LVM drive? How about swap space? > >i don't have any problem with this kind of setup, but you will find > >many people here that will say just the opposite. > Hehehe the eternal discussion :) > > Well, I just don't have the guts to put /boot in LVM so I just put it > on a 'md' device. Do boot managers like Lilo and Grub cope with LVM ? > I know Lilo does cope with md since it will put the boot block on both > physical drives when installing. And how does it work when the bios > needs to reference the boot image which is in an LVM volume ? Does > this work at all ? I just never tried, but I am curious :) > > I also put my root in LVM, and this works great. Only thing is that > you might have some problems when migrating to newer LVM versions, but > it is do-able. Having your root in a resizable volume has many > advantages I think. Especially with a "live" resizeable filesystem. Doesn't HP-UX have a setup where you have /stand (IIRC) which will always reside in the same place and should always boot etc and everything else on LVM? I think there was a scheme like that. With Linux, /boot and initrd's could be arranged like that. That is what root raid and root fs/driver/bus as module -kernels usually do: you boot with an initrd that has enough confs, utils and modules to get the devices, start the raids and mount root to pivot to. Now, for the non-DOS, could LVM have some extra features to allow making all disks PV's and have /boot and initrd or /stand-like on a "special" location that boot loaders etc can find and use to start the system? There would just need to be enough to start LVM to a point where you can mount the root LV. (I may also be thinking Aix here. Such wonderful fs management ;) -- I once waxed the floors of a nursing home, pulled off all the rubber feet on the walkers, and yelled "FIRE!" _______________________________________________ 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/
