[linux-lvm] SoftRaid and LVM

svetljo galia at st-peter.stw.uni-erlangen.de
Tue Sep 4 15:03:27 UTC 2001


Hei why does nobody try to help me

[linux-lvm] PBs with LVM over software RAID ( and XFS ? ext2 reiserfs?) 
<http://lists.sistina.com/pipermail/linux-lvm/2001-September/008611.html>

i've done pretty much trys and almost nobody seems to wont to help me
am i invisable

svetljo

Ray Miller wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 04:35:40PM +0200, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>It seems that you use a fresh 2.4.9 kernel. In kernel 2.4.9, the version
>>of LVM is 0.9.0-beta2, which is what you get with dmesg or cat /proc/lvm
>>Then you installed tools from 1.0.1rc2. You must upgrade your kernel
>>with LVM 1.0.1rc2 if you want all that to be consistent (or use beta2
>>tools, which is not the good way IMHO).
>>
>>Recompile 2.4.9 with LVM-1.0.1rc2 and you'll be OK.
>>
>
>I applied the 1.0.1-rc2 patch to a clean 2.4.9 kernel tree and was
>able to create a logical volume on top of s/w RAID 1 without any
>trouble. However, a bonnie++ run on an ext2 (or ext3) filesystem on
>the logical volume caused the system to lock up, with kswapd going
>uninterruptible. I suspect a VM (rather than LVM) problem, as a
>similar lock-up occurred on another system with 2.4.8 kernel and no
>LVM. We've reverted to kernel 2.4.7 on both systems and had no
>problems since.
>







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