From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 08:36:53 +0100 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Linux 2.4.0-test12-pre7 LVM .9 vs .8final Message-ID: <20001213083653.A30015@colombina.comedia.it> References: <3A3477D0.94BC1D88@twc.de> <20001212084807.A27177@colombina.comedia.it> <20001212170719.A5990@sistina.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20001212170719.A5990@sistina.com>; from lewis@sistina.com on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 05:07:20PM -0600 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: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 05:07:20PM -0600, lewis@sistina.com wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:48:07AM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:44:32AM +0100, Ulf Bartelt wrote: > > > A set of lvm tools for multiple versions of the io protocol could help a > > > lot... > > > > > > Sure this can be faked using links, wrappers etc... > > > > i am using this piece of junk for testing and switching back btw 0.8 and 0.9 > > As far as I can tell though, this won't help people who are booting off of LVM > to transition to 0.9 We need some sort of boot disk image or something to > activate the volume group under the 0.9 code. I don't grok the problem, (i have root lvm on my main system) /dev/vg01/lvol1 253871 49152 191612 20% / since the only known way to boot this is by having an initrd i just put lvm 0.9 tools in the initrd an rebooted my linuxrc looks like: #!/bin/sh -x mount -t proc /proc /proc echo "" > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/md/lvm-mod.o insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/md/md.o insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/md/raid1.o insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/md/xor.o insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/md/raid5.o insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.o aic7xxx='verbose' insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.o insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.o insmod -k /lib/modules/*/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o raidstart -a ln -s md/0 /dev/md0 ln -s md/1 /dev/md1 vgscan -v vgchange -a y umount /proc -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l.