From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <38A0C388.4DFF0811@msede.com> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 02:31:52 +0100 From: Michael Marxmeier Reply-To: jum@anubis.han.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: Configuring boot partition with LVM (fwd) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@msede.com Forwarded message ... -------- Original Message -------- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 23:11:24 +0100 Resent-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 2:27:50 MEZ From: Jens-Uwe Mager To: Jos Visser Cc: Fabian.Herschel@suse.de, linux-lvm@msede.com Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Configuring boot partition with LVM In-Reply-To: <389EF4DE.68165A11@osp.nl>; from josv@osp.nl on Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 05:37:50PM +0100 On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 05:37:50PM +0100, Jos Visser wrote: > > Lilo > > should also learn how to boot a kernel fom a striped volume... > > I don't think you fully appreciate the request you're making here. > Commercial Unices such as HP-UX and Solaris can not boot from striped > volumes for about the same reasons why it would be difficult to have > LILO read from a striped volume: the implications are just too > horrendous to comtemplate. At least the IBM people with the AIX LVM are able to make that work. The only thing that they were not able for a long time is to make system dumps work in such a configuration. But I believe that even that works under AIX 4.3.x now. -- Jens-Uwe Mager