From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:03:46 +0000 From: Heinz J. Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Any known problems with ReiserFS and LVM? Message-ID: <20001120140346.D29032@srv.t-online.de> Reply-To: Mauelshagen@sistina.com References: <3A18E859.5BB343B8@elinux.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3A18E859.5BB343B8@elinux.com.sg>; from michael@elinux.com.sg on Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:01:13PM +0800 Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Michael Boman Cc: linux-lvm@msede.com Hi Michael. On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:01:13PM +0800, Michael Boman wrote: > Is there any known problems with ReiserFS and LVM, or doesn't LVM care > at all about what filesystem it's using? If so, will it work with RAW > devices as well? As Patrick Boutilier pointed out ReiserFS works fine with LVM. Basically LVM is transparent to any Filesystem/Database System etc. ReiserFS needs special support to work on LVM snapshots though. Chris Mason and I created a VFS extensions which even allows ReiserFS to be mounted on LVM snapshot logical volumes. Hopefully this patch will make it into 2.4.0. BTW: it will be included in LVM 0.9. It is (not yet) available for 2.2 though. Talking about RAW device support, Stephen Tweedies raw device patch allows you to bind a character device to _any_ block devices (including LVM) to provide genuine Unix raw character device semantics. 2.4.0-textX contains it. There's a raw device support patch for 2.2.17 available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/raw-io/ > > Please advice > Michael Boman > > -- > "eLINUX --- Enabling the Net Economy on Linux" > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Michael Boman eLinux Pte Ltd > Technical Consultant http://www.elinux.com.sg > michael@elinux.com.sg Tel: (65) 227 6180 > Fax: (65) 227 5808 > ---------------------------------------------------------- -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM guy -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Bartningstr. 12 64289 Darmstadt Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 6151 7103 86 FAX 7103 96 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-