From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3FE68CE7.2030408@wanadoo.fr> From: Francis SOUYRI MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] 2.4 LVM1 devfs -> 2.6.0 LVM2 devfs References: <1071837164.7460.37.camel@Chimay.bugfactory.org> <20031219132513.GA1197@tykepenguin.com> <3FE42022.6060301@wanadoo.fr> <20031220155700.GB21133@tykepenguin.com> In-Reply-To: <20031220155700.GB21133@tykepenguin.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Mon Dec 22 00:20:02 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Hi Patrick Thank yo, I'll try to implement the same installation on my system (no Debian). Best regards. Francis Patrick Caulfield wrote: >On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:10:42AM +0100, Francis SOUYRI wrote: > > >>Hi Patrick, >> >>I have a full ("/" is also a logical volume) LVM1 2.4 devfs system, and >>I want to test the LVM2 2.6 devfs kernel. >> >>I want to have the possibility to boot the 2.4 or the 2.6 kernel with >>the same filesystems. >> >>You say "lvm-common will detect whether you have device-mapper or LVM1 >>in the kernel and use the appropriate LVM tools". What is lvm-common ? >>And if lvm-common can use the appropriate LVM tools how to install the >>LVM1 and LVM2 tools in the same filesystem ("same" binaries) >> >> > >lvm-common is the Debian package that switches between LVM versions on the >same system. If you install the "lvm10" or "lvm2" packages then this will get >installed by default. > >The Debian LVM binaries get installded lib /lib/lvm- and lvm-common >decides at run-tim which one is the most appropriate to use. > >Of course you must use the Debian packages to get this, if you build your own >tools from source then you're on your own :) (building your own kernels is fine >though) > >