-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/2010 02:59 PM, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > >>> Using Xen modified OSes, you don't need to partition the LVs. The >>> xen storage driver presents each mapped block device as a virtual >>> partition. >> >> Not used Xen for a long time but that's good to know - iirc it did not >> behave like this the last time I used it (with xvda disks). > > xen disk definition on dom0: > > disk = [ "phy:/dev/rootvg/C5MAIL,xvda1,w", > "phy:/dev/rootvg/M_SWAP,xvda2,w", > "phy:/dev/rootvg/MAIL,xvda3,w" ] Hmm, that's kinda neat. I think when I was using Xen routinely the disk= syntax was limited to associating a backing store with a whole-disk xvda device. > # df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/xvda1 10165048 1554800 8190820 16% / > /dev/xvda3 83716784 48877780 30644700 62% /home > tmpfs 1048664 0 1048664 0% /dev/shm > > However, it doesn't go so far as to let you access the first sector > of /dev/xvda Understandable but I can't help but wondering what happens if you try? :) Does it return zeros or just error out? Regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxNldYACgkQ6YSQoMYUY96mDwCfXn5p/ecOpAgE35ngVgP9nPd0 QJcAoLsrDMAkcaPEpmvEk0r2qAlwcZT6 =AfUs -----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/
