On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 12:17:15AM -0400, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: > LVM keeps backups of metadata in /etc/lvm (or some distro specific place). > This is not especially useful when the root filesystem itself is in LVM. > I have been making rsync backups of /etc/lvm to /boot (which is non-LVM > since grub doesn't support LVM until 1.95). Should I make /etc/lvm a > symlink to /boot/lvm? If you give /boot enough free space. You can also change the location by setting the environment variable LVM_SYSTEM_DIR. > When grub supports LVM, and the entire disk is LVM (no partition table), > how will backups be made? Just like any other file backups - tape, CD, internet: you choose! > AIX treats the boot LV specially, and ensures > that its PEs are contiguous at the beginning of the disk(s). Nothing is stopping a linux installer doing that today: --alloc contiguous and specify the extents. But if grub supports LVM2 properly (add a trivial mapping layer from LV extents to physical sectors, then populate it from the LVM2 metadata across an agreed interface from a library maintained as part of the lvm2 package) it won't require anything like that of course - the hardest problem I think is actually for it to identify the right disks to use. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com _______________________________________________ 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/
