[linux-lvm] Painless upgrade to lvm2?

Heinz J . Mauelshagen mauelshagen at sistina.com
Mon Dec 9 05:20:02 UTC 2002


On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 06:08:10PM -0800, bmoon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Are there any good references or document to understand the LVM2 and
> device mapper?

You mean design documents? It is open source ;))

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

> 
> I could not find any except man pages for dm & lvm.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bo
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen at sistina.com>
> To: <linux-lvm at sistina.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 4:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Painless upgrade to lvm2?
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:43:02AM -0800, bmoon wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I followed the instruction but I am facing the following cimpile error.
> > > Would you provide me any help on this error?
> > >
> > > ---------------
> > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/device-mapper.0.96.07/lib'
> > >
> gcc -c -Iioctl -I. -I../include -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -fPIC -g -fno
> > > -omit-frame-pointer ioctl/libdevmapper.c -o ioctl/libdevmapper.o
> > >
> gcc -c -Iioctl -I. -I../include -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -fPIC -g -fno
> > > -omit-frame-pointer libdm-common.c -o libdm-common.o
> > > gcc -shared -Wl,-soname,libdevmapper.so.0.96 \
> > > -Wl,--version-script,.export.sym ioctl/libdevmapper.o libdm-common.o -o
> > > ioctl/libdevmapper.so
> > > /usr/bin/ld:.export.sym:1: parse error in VERSION script
> >
> > Please see Alasdairs answer.
> >
> > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > make[1]: *** [ioctl/libdevmapper.so] Error 1
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/device-mapper.0.96.07/lib'
> > > make: *** [lib] Error 2
> > > --------------------------
> > >
> > > Additional question, If I use linux2.4.20 then Are there any patches for
> it
> > > or we do not need
> > > any patch for LVM2 or device mapper?
> >
> > Use
> http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/patches/2.4-stable/2.4.20-dm-1.tar.bz2
> >
> > Regards,
> > Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Bo
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bradley Alexander" <storm at tux.org>
> > > To: <linux-lvm at sistina.com>
> > > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 5:36 AM
> > > Subject: [linux-lvm] Painless upgrade to lvm2?
> > >
> > >
> > > > I'm running lvm-1.0.6 on a Debian/sid system, and was wondering what
> > > > would be the best upgrade path? Install from debs? From source? Is
> there
> > > > some kind of howto for making this transition?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > --
> > > > --Brad
> > > >
> > >
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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Sistina Software Inc.
Senior Consultant/Developer                       Am Sonnenhang 11
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                                                  Germany
Mauelshagen at Sistina.com                           +49 2626 141200
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