From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IegC8-000806-Pz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:10:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l97Nwwmh017079; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 23:58:58 GMT Received: from crowfix.com (crowfix.com [216.240.38.154]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l97NqBpa008032 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 23:52:14 GMT Received: (qmail 10150 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Oct 2007 23:52:03 -0000 Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 16:52:03 -0700 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LVM : pros & cons Message-ID: <20071007235202.GA9893@crowfix.com> References: <20071007110124.GC4694@sympatico.ca> <200710072126.33854.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200710072126.33854.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 975bd5bc-a452-4176-8912-4a0766166427 X-Archives-Hash: eaaa75eed993936faf9a60d818eb7897 On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:26:33PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > A total non-issue in my experience. I've never had an LVM problem yet, > but maybe I'm just lucky. The one thing you do need to be aware of it > that you require LVM support at boot time or shortly thereafter. So > either compile it into the kernel, or make sure it's in the initrd. I had a problem once, scared me to pieces until I got past it. An emerge had removed a library which was still used by the lvm command. "ldd lvm" showed "not found". Boot didn't like that. I got lucky; a rescue disk allowed me to create a bogus symlink to the old library so that boot could proceed, at which point I remerged the broken command and no longer needed the bogus symlink. I have since written a perl program which looks for such broken libs. I have no idea why gentoo's revdep-rebuild didn't find it. I still use LVM and even gentoo, but I am also increasingly wary of gentoo updates. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list