-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 geert Geurts wrote: > So what I did first create a LVM partition of 1MB on a memorystick and then > change the if of dd to point to the LVM partition, I'm now able to pvcreate > /dev/loop0, vgcreate SmallDisk /dev/loop0. > But I'm unable to create a logical volume in the SmallDisk group... > what am I doing wrong here? is it even possible if not why? Hi Geert, What was the error you were getting at this point? If possible, can you use a service like pastebin.com to post the complete output of "lvcreate - -vvv" with the options you're using for the SmallDisk VG. That should give enough detail to have some idea where it's failing. I think the idea is reasonable enough although you'll probably need to do some fiddling around to get the size/number of the gmailfs volumes right to give good performance. Snapshots could definitely work here but I think it might be a bit tricky without some of the patches that are currently outstanding for device-mapper, esp. Mikulas' snapshot merging patches which you'd need to "restore" one of the COW areas. See the thread here: http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/LVM_Snapshot_Merging Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjgmxgACgkQ6YSQoMYUY96LegCcCHPZNLfhTUjIrsLiJcgROTDV +SwAoLFQDiGpkZl5tpEFW5hjFH+6OuAj =i+W8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
