From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Differences between LVM1 and LVM2 Message-ID: <20021121114003.GA3069@reti> References: <3DDA963B.7080309@crepido.com> <20021121120126.C8329@sistina.com> <878yznyxot.fsf@puck.erasmus.jurri.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878yznyxot.fsf@puck.erasmus.jurri.net> From: Joe Thornber 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: Thu Nov 21 05:40:01 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:22:26PM +0200, Samuli Suonpaa wrote: > between DM and LVM2 or how I should set up my system. Something > similar to LVM-HOWTO, I mean. DM is the kernel driver, LVM2 is a userland application that uses DM to set up the volumes. > Should I do most things just like I'm used to with LVM tools > (pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate and then just mount) or should I use > dmsetup for something - and for what? You don't need dmsetup - think of dmsetup as an alternate (and very simple) volume manager that uses DM. > My laptop and my home-server are both running Debian Testing. Packages > lvm2-1.95.10-2 andf dmsetup-0.96.04-2 and libdevmapper0-0.96.04-2 are > available, both packaged by Andres Solomon. I guess I'd have to > install these? Will these work with - for instance - kernels > 2.4.20-rc1-ac4 and 2.5.47-ac6 or should I patch my kernels? The packages you mention should work with those two kernels. - Joe