From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pbmonday@imation.com Subject: [linux-lvm] LVM Partition Dependency Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:01:09 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@msede.com I'm trying to construct an LVM solution with block devices that are not located in the partition table (becuase they are not a local fixed physical disk). I'm curious how deep the dependency on being in the partition goes with the LVM. For example, I know the /proc/partitions file is checked during pvcreate...if I rewrote pvcreate to get around this check would I encounter other dependencies on actually being a drive partition located on the local machine later? Or, if I added my block device to the partitions table, would that be enough to fulfill all requirements of being a local partition that are required by the LVM? Would the problems be only with the user space tools, or would there also be problems in the kernel module? Just curious on how far I would have to go to "trick" or "modify" the LVM to accept something other than a local hard drive partition. Thank you, Paul Monday pbmonday@imation.com