From: Ulf Bartelt <ulf@twc.de>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] startup stuff an dnew question :-)
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:44:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A7FAB7A.29CFB419@twc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010205213917.C29990@bar.nowhere
zoo1@corecomm.net wrote:
> >But the tricky part is: hda2 and hda1 are LVs too...
> >I just faked partition map entries for them and I use them only by this
> >"partition aliases", so I can boot a system living totally in LVs using
> >conventional things like lilo...
>
> erm... just what does this gain you, then? if you resize or move those
> LVs, wouldn't you have to manually change the fake partition map
> entries, sort of negating the entire point of using LVM...?
...I do not want to use an initrd to switch on some service I cannot
switch off properly because no exitrd exists. But that's
philosophical...
...but for now I never needed to resize /boot or /, only the other
LVs...
...and admittedly I never spent a thought on relations between partition
aliases and snapshots... :-(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-06 7:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-02 9:02 [linux-lvm] startup stuff JAmes
2001-02-02 10:20 ` Patrick Caulfield
2001-02-02 11:46 ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-02-02 11:02 ` JAmes
2001-02-02 12:09 ` Holger Grothe
2001-02-02 13:53 ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-02-02 13:46 ` [linux-lvm] startup stuff an dnew question :-) JAmes
2001-02-05 8:18 ` Ulf Bartelt
2001-02-06 2:39 ` zoo1
2001-02-06 7:44 ` Ulf Bartelt [this message]
2001-02-06 17:34 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-02-06 18:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-02-02 13:53 ` [linux-lvm] startup stuff Timo Aaltonen
2001-02-02 14:18 ` JAmes
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