Re: Moving from Linux 2.4.19 LVM to LVM2

[Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>]

commence  Patrick Finnegan quotation:

> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Joe Thornber wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:51:48PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>> > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Joe Thornber wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:05:37PM -0500, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>> > > > Is there an easy and plainless way to do this?  Are the LVM2 tools
>> > > > backwards-compatible with the old LVM?
>> > >
>> > > Yes
>> >
>> > Actually, the answer is aparently "No."  LVM2's tools don't work with a
>> > 2.4.x kernel.
>>
>> Had you applied the device-mapper patches for 2.4 ?
>
> Umm, no.  If I had, then that wouldn't be 2.4's native LVM.

The LVM1 tools require the lvm module.  The LVM2 tools require the
device-mapper module (and therfore, for 2.4, a patch).  LVM2 is
backward-compatible with LVM1 in the sense that LVM2 can use
LVM1-created volume groups.

I've been running LVM2 (I used to use LVM1) on my laptop for the past
few weeks (2.4.19, also patched with rmap14b), and it's been
completely trouble-free.

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