From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:52:11 +0000 From: Heinz J. Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM Partition Dependency Message-ID: <20001030225211.A26323@srv.t-online.de> Reply-To: Mauelshagen@sistina.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from pbmonday@imation.com on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 12:02:01PM -0600 Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: pbmonday@imation.com Cc: linux-lvm@msede.com On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 12:02:01PM -0600, pbmonday@imation.com wrote: > > > > >> I'm trying to construct an LVM solution with block devices that are not > >> located in the partition table (becuase they are not a local fixed > physical > >> disk). > >Sounds like NBD or friends. > > Yes, I'm actually using ENBD, but, same difference. > > >It is less a question of beeing local to the machine because there's NBD > >support build in anyway. > > This is interesting...when was this support added to the LVM? It was already in before 0.8final. > > I'm not having any luck with pvcreate tool shipped with SuSE 6.4 and > > LVM 0.8final. It should work in 6.4 with NBD and major 43. Did you run a "pvcreate -d" to figure the reason out? > I will upgrade my LVM tools, maybe that will do the trick. > > >> Just curious on how far I would have to go to "trick" or "modify" the > LVM > >> to accept something other than a local hard drive partition. > >As i mentioned above: NBD should work. > I assume you mean NBD should work natively, without any of the changes > I mentioned to pvcreate? Exactly. "pvcreate -d" will help us to analyze what's going on. > > Thanks for your very quick response. > You're welcome :-) > > > Paul -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM guy -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Bartningstr. 12 64289 Darmstadt Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 6151 7103 86 FAX 7103 96 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-