From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM2 and Kernel 2.5.xx Message-ID: <20021009130737.C23965@sistina.com> References: <200210070638.PPL01042@vmms4.verisignmail.com> <20021007104553.B17176@sistina.com> <20021007143359.GB1978@glorybox.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021007143359.GB1978@glorybox.de>; from lists@glorybox.de on Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:33:59PM +0200 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: Date: Wed Oct 9 06:09:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 04:33:59PM +0200, Kai Weber wrote: > + Heinz J . Mauelshagen : > > > the device-mapper code to Linus ASAP. This is supposed to be the > > replacement for the LVM1 driver in 2.5 together with the LVM2 tools > > (which are LVM1 compatible). > > How will the migration from LVM1 to LVM2 work? Would LVM1 volumes > be easily convertible into LVM2 without data loss? LVM2 is completely metadata format compatible with LVM1. IOW: it supports the LVM1 metadata read-write. The upgrade is a matter of installing the LVM2 and device-mapper software (properly ;-) and running "vgscan ; vgchange -ay". > > Kai > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-