Charles Marcus <CMarcus@Media-Brokers.com> wrote: > On 9/18/2009, Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com) wrote: > > > I recently tried to boot 2.6.31 on Fedora 8, and it couldn't > > > find the volume groups. The same kernel works fine on F11. > > > > try to recompile kernel with > > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y > > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y > > > > (old lvm will not understand new sysfs design, this should > > provide old sysfs entries) > > I'm also an lvm newbie, and since I'll obviously be running into this > sometime soon... > > If lvm2 is updated first (before the kernel), I'm assuming it would > still be backward compatible with older kernels? > Yes, I'm almost sure it is. I run a 2.6.30 kernel with CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y and have a relatively recent LVM, and it works well. > Or, if I updated the kernel first and compiled it with the above > options, when lvm2 gets updated, will I need to recompile the kernel > with the above options disabled before the next reboot? > I don't think so. LVM guys are not evil. :) -- André Gillibert _______________________________________________ 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/
