[linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[John.Forrer]

 I have found lots of mail from people jumping hurdles to get various aspects of
lvm working, but have yet to find a recipe that I can understand for getting lvm
installed/loaded/...  into Redhat 7.1.  from scratch.  I have a Dell computer
with 4 scsi drives of 36G each that need to be mounted as a single drive.  Any
suggestions about where I can find/buy such a recipe and/or a canned solution?  

Thanks for your help.

John Forrer
LMGT

Re: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:54:11AM -0400, John.Forrer@comsat.com wrote:
>  I have found lots of mail from people jumping hurdles to get various aspects of
> lvm working, but have yet to find a recipe that I can understand for getting lvm
> installed/loaded/...  into Redhat 7.1.  from scratch.  I have a Dell computer
> with 4 scsi drives of 36G each that need to be mounted as a single drive.  Any
> suggestions about where I can find/buy such a recipe and/or a canned solution?  

Well, no-one else seems to be able to help so I'll try. I don't have RedHat 7
but I've heard bad stories about people trying to patch RedHat kernels.

I recommend you download the latest 2.2 or 2.4 (your preference) kernel from
an ftp.kernel.org mirror and use that. The instructions in the LVM HOWTO should
be enough to guide you through it.

The most difficult part is to figure out which kernel options you need to set
- apart from LVM of course - to support your hardware. If in doubt build
everything as a module and it'll probably all work out fine.
 
patrick

Re: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[Pierre Lamb]

Unfortunately 2.4.3 kernels need to be patched to use
the latest LVM iop  the kernels were build with beta2
the latest is beta8. Certian tools may not work
completeky if not patched.

Pierre
--- Patrick Caulfield <caulfield@sistina.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:54:11AM -0400,
> John.Forrer@comsat.com wrote:
> >  I have found lots of mail from people jumping
> hurdles to get various aspects of
> > lvm working, but have yet to find a recipe that I
> can understand for getting lvm
> > installed/loaded/...  into Redhat 7.1.  from
> scratch.  I have a Dell computer
> > with 4 scsi drives of 36G each that need to be
> mounted as a single drive.  Any
> > suggestions about where I can find/buy such a
> recipe and/or a canned solution?  
> 
> Well, no-one else seems to be able to help so I'll
> try. I don't have RedHat 7
> but I've heard bad stories about people trying to
> patch RedHat kernels.
> 
> I recommend you download the latest 2.2 or 2.4 (your
> preference) kernel from
> an ftp.kernel.org mirror and use that. The
> instructions in the LVM HOWTO should
> be enough to guide you through it.
> 
> The most difficult part is to figure out which
> kernel options you need to set
> - apart from LVM of course - to support your
> hardware. If in doubt build
> everything as a module and it'll probably all work
> out fine.
>  
> patrick
> 
> _______________________________________________
> linux-lvm mailing list
> linux-lvm@sistina.com
> http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm
> read the LVM HOW-TO at
http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html


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Re: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[Goetz Bock]

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On Tue, Aug 07 '01 at 15:33, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:54:11AM -0400, John.Forrer@comsat.com wrote:
> Well, no-one else seems to be able to help so I'll try. I don't have RedHat 7
> but I've heard bad stories about people trying to patch RedHat kernels.
For your own sanity, you should NEVER try to add another patch to any
Linux Vendors kernel. Always start with a fresh kernel and collect your
bits and pices from the web (take only thous you realy need).
And now to contradict myselve, I could offer a highly patched 2.2.19 for
Trustix (and is someone gives me access to a dumpable redhat 7.1 system
I'll try to make my RPMs workable on redhat (But I've a lot of work to
do at the moment, so don't expect immidiat results)).
-- 
Goetz Bock                                              IT Consultant
Dipl.-Inf. Univ.

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Re: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 07:43:34AM -0700, Pierre Lamb wrote:
> Unfortunately 2.4.3 kernels need to be patched to use
> the latest LVM iop  the kernels were build with beta2
> the latest is beta8. Certian tools may not work
> completeky if not patched.

Indeed. Patching up to beta8 was implied in my reference to the HOWTO. For a new
installation that should be painless :-)

patrick

Re: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Goetz Bock wrote:

> I'll try to make my RPMs workable on redhat (But I've a lot of work to

To save you some work: Alan Cox's latest patches have a 'make rpm'
target.

--paulj

Re: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[Pierre Lamb]

Painless is a relative term.

Pierre
--- Patrick Caulfield <caulfield@sistina.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 07:43:34AM -0700, Pierre
> Lamb wrote:
> > Unfortunately 2.4.3 kernels need to be patched to
> use
> > the latest LVM iop  the kernels were build with
> beta2
> > the latest is beta8. Certian tools may not work
> > completeky if not patched.
> 
> Indeed. Patching up to beta8 was implied in my
> reference to the HOWTO. For a new
> installation that should be painless :-)
> 
> patrick
> 
> _______________________________________________
> linux-lvm mailing list
> linux-lvm@sistina.com
> http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm
> read the LVM HOW-TO at
http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html


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Re: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[Goetz Bock]

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On Tue, Aug 07 '01 at 17:50, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > I'll try to make my RPMs workable on redhat (But I've a lot of work to
> To save you some work: Alan Cox's latest patches have a 'make rpm'
> target.
Well, nice to hear, but I was talking about making my patched 2.2.19
kernel work on RedHat 7.1. Apparently there are some small compatibility
problems, and the build targets (basically only i686) do not smouthely
integrate with RH.
-- 
Goetz Bock                                              IT Consultant
Dipl.-Inf. Univ.

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RE: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[Erick Calder]

> and is someone gives me access to a dumpable redhat 7.1
> system I'll try to make my RPMs workable on redhat (But I've a lot of work
to
> do at the moment, so don't expect immidiat results)).

I'll jump at that chance!  I have a box I've been trying to build your RPMs
on for a while without success...  I can let you have at it.

The last point I reached was a successful build of the RPMs but I was unable
to install them, the install complained that "package kernel-2.2.19-4tr1bn
is for a different architecture".  yikes!  I was building the i686 target
specifically because without specifying the target I got complaints...

-----Original Message-----
From:	linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com] On
Behalf Of Goetz Bock
Sent:	Tuesday, August 07, 2001 7:56 AM
To:	linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject:	Re: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

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On Tue, Aug 07 '01 at 15:33, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 08:54:11AM -0400, John.Forrer@comsat.com wrote:
> Well, no-one else seems to be able to help so I'll try. I don't have
RedHat 7
> but I've heard bad stories about people trying to patch RedHat kernels.
For your own sanity, you should NEVER try to add another patch to any
Linux Vendors kernel. Always start with a fresh kernel and collect your
bits and pices from the web (take only thous you realy need).
And now to contradict myselve, I could offer a highly patched 2.2.19 for
Trustix (and is someone gives me access to a dumpable redhat 7.1 system
I'll try to make my RPMs workable on redhat (But I've a lot of work to
do at the moment, so don't expect immidiat results)).
--
Goetz Bock                                              IT Consultant
Dipl.-Inf. Univ.

RE: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[Erick Calder]

Paul,

where do I find Alan Cox's software?  I've looked everywhere on the sistina
site but no mention... maybe I'm blind!

- e

-----Original Message-----
From:	linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com] On
Behalf Of Paul Jakma
Sent:	Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:51 AM
To:	linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject:	Re: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Goetz Bock wrote:

> I'll try to make my RPMs workable on redhat (But I've a lot of work to

To save you some work: Alan Cox's latest patches have a 'make rpm'
target.

--paulj

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RE: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[Oliver Jovic]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Erick Calder wrote:

> Paul,
>
> where do I find Alan Cox's software?  I've looked everywhere on the sistina
> site but no mention... maybe I'm blind!

Erick,

you arent blind coz this files are not on sistina. They can be found on
ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ . There are thousand of
mirrors from kernel.org. Check them out on www.kernel.org.
I dunno if the beta7 and hardblocksize patches are included in Alan
latest patch (ac9 afaik, from yesterday). Maybe somebody else know it.

>
> - e
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com [mailto:linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com] On
> Behalf Of Paul Jakma
> Sent:	Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:51 AM
> To:	linux-lvm@sistina.com
> Subject:	Re: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM
>
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Goetz Bock wrote:
>
> > I'll try to make my RPMs workable on redhat (But I've a lot of work to
>
> To save you some work: Alan Cox's latest patches have a 'make rpm'
> target.
>
> --paulj
>
> _______________________________________________
> linux-lvm mailing list
> linux-lvm@sistina.com
> http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm
> read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
>
> _______________________________________________
> linux-lvm mailing list
> linux-lvm@sistina.com
> http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm
> read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
>

Re: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[Goetz Bock]

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On Wed, Aug 08 '01 at 17:17, Erick Calder wrote:
> > and is someone gives me access to a dumpable redhat 7.1
> > system I'll try to make my RPMs workable on redhat (But I've a lot of 
> > work to do at the moment, so don't expect immidiat results)).
> I'll jump at that chance!  I have a box I've been trying to build your RPMs
> on for a while without success...  I can let you have at it.
If you would mail me a login/pwd that is allowed to log in using ssh and
sudo -s (and the boxes IP) I'll try to build my RPM on your box ...
-- 
Goetz Bock                                              IT Consultant
Dipl.-Inf. Univ.

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Re: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[Goetz Bock]

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On Thu, Aug 09 '01 at 12:46, Goetz Bock wrote:
> If you would mail me a login/pwd ...
And next time I will not send it to the list. 

[looking for my whip ... bad bad boy]
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Goetz Bock                                              IT Consultant
Dipl.-Inf. Univ.

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RE: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

[Erick Calder]

do you have a public key that I can use to encrypt this information? or are
you up on ICQ or YM that I can give it to you that way?

- e r i c k

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Behalf Of Goetz Bock
Sent:	Thursday, August 09, 2001 3:47 AM
To:	linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject:	Re: [linux-lvm] Looking for recipe for LVM

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On Wed, Aug 08 '01 at 17:17, Erick Calder wrote:
> > and is someone gives me access to a dumpable redhat 7.1
> > system I'll try to make my RPMs workable on redhat (But I've a lot of
> > work to do at the moment, so don't expect immidiat results)).
> I'll jump at that chance!  I have a box I've been trying to build your
RPMs
> on for a while without success...  I can let you have at it.

If you would mail me a login/pwd that is allowed to log in using ssh and
sudo -s (and the boxes IP) I'll try to build my RPM on your box ...
--
Goetz Bock                                              IT Consultant
Dipl.-Inf. Univ.