Import to Linux?

[David Nixon]

Is it possible to 'vgimport' a volume
group that was created under HP-UX to
a Linux host?

[Peter Godron · Accepted solution]

David,
please see:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=719066

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

I think that will explode rather nicely.

Note that the filesystem itself is vxfs under HP-UX and ext3 under Linux. Linux will not be able to mount the filesystem without loading a new kernel module that has yet to be invented.

SEP

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

It should also be noted that LVM under Linux was a feature/command port to Linux. Under the hood it works differently.

Its nice to have a similar command set but the actual work product is not compatible.

Sorry for the split post, bad mouse. Bad mouse!

SEP

[David Nixon]

So the concensus is that
HP-UX LVM is not compatible with Linux LVM.

Presumably due to
implementation differences at the device driver level.