[linux-lvm] Successful Upgrade to 1.0 with RH 7.1

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Gerry,

thanks a lot for your kind feedback.

FYI:
in order to make the upgrade to > 0.9.1 Beta 8 even smoother, my team came
up with a slicker solution avoiding the metadata upgrade process
completely, which caused sleepless nights ;-) for some users and Linux
distributors. Sorry folks!

Already announced and available at www.sistina.com as LVM 1.0.1-rc1.

FYI: users, who already have successfully updated to 1.0 *don't* need it
     but users who didn't can install 1.0.1-rc1 *and* run it with their given
     VGs without a seperate upgrade process (kudos to my team and Joe Thornber
     in particular :-)

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --


On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 05:39:26PM -0400, gerry at dorfam.ca wrote:
> I thought I'd share my experience with my upgrade from beta 7 to 1.0 on
> Redhat's 2.4.3-12 kernel...
> 
> First, I had already patched the 2.4.3-12 kernel and successfully
> installed lvm beta 7.  This went without problems following the
> instructions in the PATCHES directory.
> 
> I downloaded the new lvm 1.0 tarball and tried to patch the existing
> patched kernel source.  That didn't work very well so I immediately gave
> up on that approach and started with a clean Redhat 2.4.3-12 kernel.  The
> patch was created properly and installed without errors.
> 
> I then rebuilt the kernel using the saved .config file from the old
> working kernel.  No problems with the kernel compile.  Being on a roll I
> did the make file in the LVM/1.0 directory, then updated the existing pv's
> using pvversion.  Finally, I did a make install and rebooted.
> 
> Everything came up without a single error.  I'm now running on lvm 1.0 and
> all data is intact!
> 
> Great work and congratulations to the LVM team!
> 
> PS. Notice that I started with a clean Redhat 2.4.3-12 kernel NOT the
> standard kernel.  Whatever changes have been made by Redhat do not affect
> LVM.
> 
> 
> Gerry
> -- 
> "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Geoffrey Chaucer
> 
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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Sistina Software Inc.
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