From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from fentible.pjc.net (vpn-4-2.stuttgart.redhat.com [10.32.4.2]) by pobox.surrey.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j9V9xwvl013993 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:59:59 GMT Message-ID: <4365EB1C.5050405@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:59:56 +0000 From: Patrick Caulfield MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Can LVM2 and CLVM co-exist References: <200510272317.02488.edwardam@interlix.com> <4361D0EC.3050004@redhat.com> <200510281131.28632.edwardam@interlix.com> In-Reply-To: <200510281131.28632.edwardam@interlix.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: edwardam@interlix.com Cc: linux-lvm@redhat.com Edward Muller wrote: > On Friday 28 October 2005 02:19 am, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > >>Edward Muller wrote: >> >>>I have a system using LVM2 and recently setup a CORAID (www.coraid.com) >>>device. I'd like to use CLVM to manage the volumes on the device. But >>>someone mentioned that LVM2 and CLVM may be incompatible. >> >>What exactly are you trying to do? >> >>LVM2 & CLVM can't be incompatible - they are the same thing! installing the >>lvm2-cluster RPM doesn't replace any LVM2 components, it provides a new >>locking method for clustered VGs and a daemon to distribute the commands >>across the cluster. > > > What's an RPM? :-) > j/k - This is on gentoo linux and it's a separate package and doesn't depend > on the lvm package. > > But on investigating further I see that they compile lvm with clvm in that > package. Presumably so you can have different versions of clvm and lvm > installed. Why you would want to do that I don't know. That sounds more like a dangerous idea than a feature ! clvmd & lvm2 really ought to be kept in sync. -- patrick