[linux-lvm] LVM, rawio, ext2?
David Rees
dbr at greenhydrant.com
Thu Aug 23 22:52:37 UTC 2001
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:40:34PM +0200, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 08:49:05PM +0000, José Luis Domingo López wrote:
> > On Thursday, 23 August 2001, at 01:40:12 -0700,
> > David Rees wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'd like to create an ext2 filesystem over a raw io device, is this even
> > > possible? (If not, skip the rest of this message! ;-)
> > >
> > Maybe I'm completely wrong (as usual :), but as far as I know you can
> > either create a filesystem over any block device (e.g. partition, md, LV,
> > etc.) and use it as usual, or bind a raw device to an existing block
> > device, and let the application (e.g. Oracle) manage space on the device
> > as it wants.
>
> Correct.
>
> You can't run a filesystem on a raw device.
As I suspected. I thought I had seen an example of it somewhere but I am
mistaken.
Thanks,
Dave
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