[linux-lvm] NFS

Andreas Dilger adilger at turbolinux.com
Tue Feb 27 17:00:44 UTC 2001


Andy writes:
> Are there any issues regarding exporting lvm mounted filesystems
> over NFS?

No, I've been doing it a long time.  LVM is a block device like a disk,
while NFS is a filesystem interface.  As long as the filesystem can
support NFS you are OK.  This limits you pretty much to ext2 or ext3 only,
unless you have reiserfs with up-to-date patches.

Cheers, Andreas
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