From: Janne Peltonen <janne.peltonen@helsinki.fi>
To: Ian Burnett <maillist-lvm@ianburnett.com>
Cc: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM on an external USB device - why not?
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:00:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071015120052.GH32484@helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <471351AD.4070406@ianburnett.com>
Go for it. I've had such a system running since april 2006.
There really is nothing special about it.
--Janne
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:40:29PM +0100, Ian Burnett wrote:
> My current system configuration is a 250GB internal IDE HDD, managed
> using LVM2 under Fedora Core 6. What I would like to do is to put this
> disk into an external USB enclosure to reduce heat generation inside the
> PC. Another reason is to allow the addition of extra disks very easily
> (current case only has room for 1x 3.5" HDD).
>
> Once the USB drive is connected, I will be performing the initial boot
> stages off a small (2GB) solid-state CF disk, so I don't necessarily
> need the full "boot from USB" capabilities.
>
> I can't see any problems in doing so myself. I realise that if
> additional usb-storage devices are added, then the raw device may change
> from /dev/sda to /dev/sdb, but with LVM using PV UUIDs to locate
> devices, won't that be irrelevant?
>
> Are there any caveats to doing this? I haven't seen anything
> particularly relevant on the archives of this mailing list, and I've
> Googled around the subject. I did discover a couple of boot-from-USB
> walkthroughs scattered around the web which unhelpfully said "don't do
> it" without giving any particular reasons. That was from some old posts
> (c. 2005), without any citations, and didn't mention LVM2 so could have
> been based on LVM1.
>
> All advice welcomed.
>
> Ian.
>
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>
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Janne Peltonen <janne.peltonen@helsinki.fi>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-15 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-15 11:40 [linux-lvm] LVM on an external USB device - why not? Ian Burnett
2007-10-15 12:00 ` Janne Peltonen [this message]
2007-10-16 23:26 ` [linux-lvm] " Brian Strand
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