[linux-lvm] Another strange setup by a newbie, but strange oops resulted while trying vgextend/vgmerge!
Daniel Mitzlaff
hackbyte at gmx.de
Wed Jan 3 13:13:14 UTC 2001
Hello there, first, i'm new to LVM but i understand the concepts it's
nice;)
2nd thing, YES i REALLY know what i do even if it seems that i don't..
;)
Ok, just my setup: A Clear RH6.2 w/ kernel 2.2.14 "-5.0" from the rh cd,
running on a 266K6 w/ DFI Board (wintel TX chipset) + a Adaptec AHA2940AU
(AIC-7861).
DDRS39130W 9,1G/SDA
DDRS34560W 4,3G/SDB
DTLA307015 15G/HDA
DJNA352030 20G/HDB
DTLA307045 45G/HDD
DTTA351010 10G/HDC
I think, it's cool to use the SCSI drives to boot from plain ext2
partitions (for some security and recovery reasons), and let the kernel
handle 2 swap partitions with the same priority (which will let the
kernel interleave and stripe the swap space itself whoa, boosting swap
performace;).
Ok, then i want to build a big vg over all drives. Create a LV with 2
stripes (hoping that it will everytime use 2 different busses;) and a
small LV using the left free extends on the VG.
First, i ran into the same problems as reported before here on the list,
vgmerge and vgextend give me OOPS while extending the LE counter for the
VG.
BUT, all my drives are filled up with data, there's NO BACKUP(!), and no
way to take more than a single drive free for reformatting.
So, i tried the patches sent by Heinz not really knowing where to patch
it in the lvm-userland, recompiled no change at all. Please, tell me
if it is correct to use the patch at the userland-tools instead of
patching the kernel-parts. And, can you tell me (and others) in which
order we have to see the patch?, plain patch for native LVM0.9, are there
other patches? (CVS snapshots are no choice!)
Ok, next ->
What the heck are you guy's doing? I use a native RH6.2 installation w/o
any updates/fixes (except for network security), using 2.2.17 and 2.2.18
kernel-tarballs (the ..17 patches works well on ..18, only a few rejects
which can easily inserted by hand;). But you CAN'T release a version that
does not work w/o telling users if they had to look at some dependencies!
(if there are some, remember i use a really clear RH6.2!)
Ok, so please tell me where i can get a release that works on my server,
it isn't uncool to me if i had to use an old but STABLE version but
tell the users in all your released files WHICH version IS definitively
STABLE.
Yes, as you can see, i read the complete ML about this problem, i found
reports and patches adressing this, but there's no help. And don't think
all your users, who want to use LVM, are able to use CVS snapshots (i
never use cvs snapshots on my server release is release features
against bugs;).
Grmpf, ok all my frustration is left out, what can we do? ;)
greetings, hackbyte -> hackbyte at gmx.de, IRCNet hackbyte @ #linux.de,
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