LVM for LINUX

[AUJ]

To All Linux Guru!

Is LVM supported by Linux Advance Server 2.1? Where can I dowloand the software for free?

Thanks.
AUJ

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

The Advance Server is not free realise
so if you want it you need to buy it.

Caesar

[Caesar_3]

Hi,

Check this:
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/as/

Caesar

[Zeev Schultz]

2.4 kernel comes with embedded LVM (module).
2.2+ needs to build.
See here for updated LVM software:
http://www.sistina.com/products_lvm_download.htm
And here how-to install etc:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

Because the Linux Advance Server 2.1 use
kernel 2.4.X and depend on what Zeev wrote
you have the suport in kernel for LVM.

Caesar

[Krishna Prasad]

LVM is supported by the Linux Kernel. Whether or not it is added to the kernel for distro of your choice???? but you can get an rpm for it.

I don't think there is a mirror-ux/type functionality in Linux.

[Steven E. Protter]

LVM is great, I use it on HP-UX.

You can not mirror with LVM. No mirror/ux

Red Hat's Disk Druid and regualr volume management supports mirroring.

What they need to do make their built in mirroring tool integrated into LVM, then I'd switch immediately.

SEP

[Huc_1]

I am using LVM on Redhat 8.0 linux distribution
I also use Reisefs and have tryed ext3 and found it works fine and does the work in fact I mix external usb mount disk and internal scsi disk.
no problem ! plan using software raid to mirror so i can backup then split and unplug usb external disk and keep in a safe place for backup/contigency

Still some work to be done

You can download LVM from http://www.sistina.com

cat /var/log/messages | grep -i "lvm" will tell you if lvm modules are loaded, on my system this
gives

LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) module loaded

Hope some of this is usefull to you.

Jean-Pierre

[Paulo A G Fessel]

Actually, you can mirror LVM on Linux. The only difference is that you make the mirror first with the md driver, and then use /dev/mdX as physical volumes for your LVM environment.

Nowadays, as the price of RAID boards has dropped substancially, you can use them to replace /dev/mdX, which is software-based. Then, you'd use /dev/sda as hardware RAID 1 as PV for your VG.

Notice that neither Lilo nor Grup understand LVM partition format; thus, you'll need to make /boot as a normal /dev/sdX device. However, / and all other partitions, as well as swap, can be put into LVM.

HTH
Paulo Fessel