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From: Patrick Caulfield <pcaulfie@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgimport/vgexport commands when logically moving disks between systems
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:49:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45815669.5000107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <298476.26347.qm@web51103.mail.yahoo.com>

Dave wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> Thanks for clarifying the status of LVM1 (ie. *not* a clustering tool).  That's
> somewhat surprising since it does include an LVM script in the resource.d directory.
>  In any case, we're not in a huge rush to upgrade to LVM2 unless it really is
> necessary, as these are RH AS3 boxes running the 2.4.21-47.ELsmp kernel, and the
> docs I've read suggest LVM2 really needs/wants to run under a 2.6.x kernel.

Yes. there are device-mapper patches for 2.4 but it's really recommended to run 2.6.

> If direct-io to metadata could be set as an option under LVM1, assuming that isn't
> the default, that would be helpful.  But, it sounds like no one really wants to
> support LVM1 anymore?!

That's true. lvm1 is in maintenance mode for RHEL3.

> Assuming we want to go forward with an upgrade to LVM2 on the current systems, how
> involved is that procedure?  Do we risk losing all our data?

No. lvm2 can read and write lvm1 metadata. you can upgrade it to lvm2 format metadata with a single command (vgconvert)
-- 

patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-14 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-05  9:38 [linux-lvm] vgimport/vgexport commands when logically moving disks between systems Dave
2006-12-05 10:28 ` Patrick Caulfield
2006-12-06 15:12   ` Dave
2006-12-06 15:54     ` Patrick Caulfield
2006-12-14 13:37       ` Dave
2006-12-14 13:49         ` Patrick Caulfield [this message]
2006-12-14 15:09           ` Alasdair G Kergon

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