[linux-lvm] lowest spec LVM run on ?

[linux-lvm] lowest spec LVM run on ?

[Kirth]

Hi,

	I'm just wondering whats the lowest spec machine that anyone has an LVM 
running (stable) on ?
	The reason is, I have just built another one, but it's on a p100 with 
16megs of ram, I tried to reiserfs
	the drive but that crashed the kernel (still no idea why, same kernel as 
my p133 with 128megs... which
	works fine). I have made the fs just ext2 for now (this is all testing NOT 
live).

	Any suggestions for ensuring it's stable ? I am trying to find some simm's 
for the pc ;)

Kirth

RE: [linux-lvm] lowest spec LVM run on ?

[S. Michael Denton]

 
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Lowest spec?  How about 486/100 with 32mb ram, 2.2.18 (.19 now) and
reiserfs with lvm 0.8i (0.9.1b7 now)?

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Subject: [linux-lvm] lowest spec LVM run on ?


Hi,

	I'm just wondering whats the lowest spec machine that anyone has an
LVM 
running (stable) on ?
	The reason is, I have just built another one, but it's on a p100
with 
16megs of ram, I tried to reiserfs
	the drive but that crashed the kernel (still no idea why, same
kernel as 
my p133 with 128megs... which
	works fine). I have made the fs just ext2 for now (this is all
testing NOT 
live).

	Any suggestions for ensuring it's stable ? I am trying to find some
simm's 
for the pc ;)

Kirth

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Re: [linux-lvm] lowest spec LVM run on ?

[Terje Kvernes]

Kirth <kirth@hole.org> writes:

> I'm just wondering whats the lowest spec machine that anyone has an
> LVM running (stable) on ? The reason is, I have just built another
> one, but it's on a p100 with 16megs of ram, I tried to reiserfs the
> drive but that crashed the kernel (still no idea why, same kernel as
> my p133 with 128megs... which works fine). I have made the fs just
> ext2 for now (this is all testing NOT live).

  I'm running LVM + reiserfs on a P90 (with the bug :) that has
  32MB worth of RAM. it works flawlessly. well, as flawlessly as stuff
  cna work with 2.4, updatedb and lack of RAM, but still. :)

-- 
Terje

Re: [linux-lvm] lowest spec LVM run on ?

[Jos� Luis Domingo L�pez]

On Sunday, 29 April 2001, at 18:47:48 +0100,
Kirth wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	I'm just wondering whats the lowest spec machine that anyone has an LVM 
> running (stable) on ?
> 	The reason is, I have just built another one, but it's on a p100 with 
> 16megs of ram, I tried to reiserfs
>
I had similar problems with previous versions of LVM on a Pentium75 with
16 MB RAM. But, AFAIK, kernel crashes when using reiserfs and LVM don't
relate to machines with limited hardware.

I've been using LVM on the aforementioned hardware, with testing purposes,
and have seen no problems so far with ext2.

Greetings.

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Re: [linux-lvm] lowest spec LVM run on ?

[Harri Haataja]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Kirth wrote:

> 	I'm just wondering whats the lowest spec machine that anyone has an LVM 
> running (stable) on ?
> 	The reason is, I have just built another one, but it's on a p100 with 
> 16megs of ram, I tried to reiserfs
> 	the drive but that crashed the kernel (still no idea why, same kernel as 
> my p133 with 128megs... which
> 	works fine). I have made the fs just ext2 for now (this is all testing NOT 
> live).

Well, I can say having a P90@120 (whee! :^) with LVM and Reiser on some
data areas at home. Does have some.. 2x32+[2x8|2x16]M RAM (forgoten
which).

-- 
"Dump was a stupid program in the first place. Leave it Behind"
	-- Linus Torvalds

Re: [linux-lvm] lowest spec LVM run on ?

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 06:47:48PM +0100, Kirth wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	I'm just wondering whats the lowest spec machine that anyone has an LVM 
> running (stable) on ?


TANSTA a lowest spec.

The hardware should just support Linux 2.2 or 2.4 including LVM ;-)

The only constraint is RAM which must be decently sized, because LVM keeps
metadata in the kernel.

If you play around with LVM test configurations and for eg. choose to have
*small* PE sizes you could eventually end up with large LVM mapping tables
leading to low memory.

Nevertheless the LVM driver checks for this and prevents you from loading
such amounts of metadata; IOW: you wouldn't be able to activate your VG(s)
or create/extend your LVs in this case and LVM still shouldn't crash on you.

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --


> 	The reason is, I have just built another one, but it's on a p100 with 
> 16megs of ram, I tried to reiserfs
> 	the drive but that crashed the kernel (still no idea why, same kernel as 
> my p133 with 128megs... which
> 	works fine). I have made the fs just ext2 for now (this is all testing NOT 
> live).
> 
> 	Any suggestions for ensuring it's stable ? I am trying to find some simm's 
> for the pc ;)
> 
> Kirth
> 
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Re: [linux-lvm] lowest spec LVM run on ?

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 04:10:07PM +0000, Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 06:47:48PM +0100, Kirth wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 	I'm just wondering whats the lowest spec machine that anyone has an LVM 
> > running (stable) on ?
> 

Runs fine on a SPARCstation IPC (25MHz) with 24MB memory here :-)

patrick