On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:53:15PM +0200, Luca Berra wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 06:31:18PM +0300, Harri Haataja wrote: > >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 > not exactly (i am not going to dive into details since i don't think > it is relevant to the list) but hp-ux is designed for hp-9000 > hardware, while linux is designed to support a much broader range of > hardware (including shitty hardware like the PC) Indeed. That tends to come up. But there are ways to go around those. I think some people are looking for neater ways that don't have to work everywhere, but can be made to work somewhere. I was just adding(?) to the speculation. > >Linux, /boot and initrd's could be arranged like that. That is what root > How is that different from what we already have now using lilo and an > lvm aware initrd? except that we don't have any constraint on placing > the kernel and initrd (except for hardware limitation of said shitty > platform) It probably isn't. Only not everyone seems to be using initrd's. The latter paragraph was probably just stating the obvious. If there was something I set out to say in that message, maybe it was: Would there be a way to arrange kernel and initrd into a position where the bootloader (including especially grub) can find it without using a specific partition for it? Then, for example, you could raid1 two whole disks, mark the md device as a pv and install a system on volumes there. -- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. _______________________________________________ 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/
