From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:37:54 +0200 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Successful Upgrade to 1.0 with RH 7.1 Message-ID: <20010820113754.B26319@sistina.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from gerry@dorfam.ca on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 05:39:26PM -0400 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Gerry, thanks a lot for your kind feedback. FYI: in order to make the upgrade to > 0.9.1 Beta 8 even smoother, my team came up with a slicker solution avoiding the metadata upgrade process completely, which caused sleepless nights ;-) for some users and Linux distributors. Sorry folks! Already announced and available at www.sistina.com as LVM 1.0.1-rc1. FYI: users, who already have successfully updated to 1.0 *don't* need it but users who didn't can install 1.0.1-rc1 *and* run it with their given VGs without a seperate upgrade process (kudos to my team and Joe Thornber in particular :-) Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 05:39:26PM -0400, gerry@dorfam.ca wrote: > I thought I'd share my experience with my upgrade from beta 7 to 1.0 on > Redhat's 2.4.3-12 kernel... > > First, I had already patched the 2.4.3-12 kernel and successfully > installed lvm beta 7. This went without problems following the > instructions in the PATCHES directory. > > I downloaded the new lvm 1.0 tarball and tried to patch the existing > patched kernel source. That didn't work very well so I immediately gave > up on that approach and started with a clean Redhat 2.4.3-12 kernel. The > patch was created properly and installed without errors. > > I then rebuilt the kernel using the saved .config file from the old > working kernel. No problems with the kernel compile. Being on a roll I > did the make file in the LVM/1.0 directory, then updated the existing pv's > using pvversion. Finally, I did a make install and rebooted. > > Everything came up without a single error. I'm now running on lvm 1.0 and > all data is intact! > > Great work and congratulations to the LVM team! > > PS. Notice that I started with a clean Redhat 2.4.3-12 kernel NOT the > standard kernel. Whatever changes have been made by Redhat do not affect > LVM. > > > Gerry > -- > "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Geoffrey Chaucer > > _______________________________________________ > 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 *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-