Edward Muller wrote: > On Friday 28 October 2005 02:19 am, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > >>Edward Muller wrote: >> >>>I have a system using LVM2 and recently setup a CORAID (www.coraid.com) >>>device. I'd like to use CLVM to manage the volumes on the device. But >>>someone mentioned that LVM2 and CLVM may be incompatible. >> >>What exactly are you trying to do? >> >>LVM2 & CLVM can't be incompatible - they are the same thing! installing the >>lvm2-cluster RPM doesn't replace any LVM2 components, it provides a new >>locking method for clustered VGs and a daemon to distribute the commands >>across the cluster. > > > What's an RPM? :-) > j/k - This is on gentoo linux and it's a separate package and doesn't depend > on the lvm package. > > But on investigating further I see that they compile lvm with clvm in that > package. Presumably so you can have different versions of clvm and lvm > installed. Why you would want to do that I don't know. That sounds more like a dangerous idea than a feature ! clvmd & lvm2 really ought to be kept in sync. -- patrick _______________________________________________ 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/