[Gllug] EVMS under Fedora Core 3

[Jack Bertram]

* Daniel P. Berrange <dan at berrange.com> [051014 17:28]:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 05:16:34PM +0100, Jack Bertram wrote:
> > Secondly: after unwrapping smartd I am now concerned about the disk on
> > which I have my root filesystem.  I want to move the root filesystem
> > onto EVMS so I can manage it, take snapshots, etc.  Under Ubuntu this
> > was a snap, but now I run FC3 the kernel doesn't seem to be patched with
> > evms which makes managing the root partition with it a pain.
> 
> Fedora Core kernels include LVM-2 which provides (more-or-less) the 
> same functionality as you'd get with EVMS. Is there a particular 
> capability you need from EVMS, which is missing in LVM-2 ? I know at
> some point in the past there have been some problems with snapshots of 
> root filesystems with LVM2 - I'd hope they're fixed by now but don't
> have a box handy to validate...

This particular box has existing EVMS snapshots, LVM containers and LVM2
containers, so (although a bit of a mess, which I'd like to sort out)
it's easier to manage through one tool than two.  I also know how to use
EVMS but not LVM2 directly, so that's what I was hoping to do.  However,
I guess I could migrate it completely over to LVM2 if I had to.

jack
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