From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <3A24CB9C.4E44EC03@reading.sgi.com> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:25:49 +0000 From: Mark Jeffery MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] RE: pvcreate fails with invalid partition type. Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com I work for SGI, so I have to use XFS! (only joking) In reality, we have a leftover PC Server and 2 disk vaults one with a bunch of 8 disks, and the other with a raid controller, which we wanted to use as a file server and CD ROM burning machine. In both of them, we wanted to use XFS to minimise fsck time. I got the RAID one working OK, and decided to use LVM to create a stripe across all 8 disks, and to use that as a scratch area. In order to get XFS to work with LVM, you need to apply a patch to LVM. Have a look at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ It seems to work fine. My test loading has just been to copy lots of small files to both, but we are starting to use it in anger. XFS is still in beta on Linux, my confidence in it is based on the performance under IRIX. Mark. -- Mark Jeffery Tel: +44 118 925 7666 Presales Analyst Mob: +44 410 579828 SGI Fax: +44 118 925 7699 Email: markj@sgi.com http://www.sgi.com