Ciao Stefano,
what Steve says is true there are a number of user space binaries that are
needed to initialize the logical volumes so if they are on a logical volume you
can't use them to activate the logical volume!! Anyway from my personal
experience I would always go with a small root filesystem on a normal partition
and everything else on logical volumes. Unless you have a LVM + XFS rescue disk
or CD ;)
Adam
On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 07:20:36 -0600
Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Stefano Peluchetti wrote:
>
> >It could be OT.. anyway i could'nt find any other place to ask that .
> >I want to use a root xfs partition at the top of a LV.
> >I don't know if it is possible (in the only howto i have found the /boot dir
> >is outside the LV)...and i also can' t understand why i have to use the
> >lvmcrate_initrd command! If i load the lvm support in kernel (not module!)
> >i
> >can't see the prob. It chould be like mounting a xfs root partition (where
> >you need kernel (NOT MODULE) support).
> >Or am i missing something?
> >This becouse i don't like to have lot of partition! I want to have
> >everything
> >in my LV.
> >Thanks for help! :)
> >Stefano
> >
> I think there is user space initialization required for lvm volumes -
> the config of the
> volume has to be loaded into the kernel from user space. This is the way
> it was the
> last time I heard Heinz talk, it may no longer be true. However if it is
> the case you
> need a bootstrap mechanism to get the root lvm volume configured before
> you can
> mount it.
>
> Steve
>
>
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