Re: [Evms-devel] Doubts

[Mike T. <mh...@us...>]

Hi Susmitha,

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 06:19, susmitha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 1) I created a LVM2 region and made into compatibility volume.
>    By using "lvscan" that LVM2 region is showing as inactive.
>    After making "vgchange -a y" then volume group(LVM2 conatiner)    
>    is becoming active so LVM2 region.
> 
>    I used "activate:/dev/evms/lvm2/vg/lv" in EVMS cli to activate 
>    the logical volume.I doesn't show any difference.
> 
>    Why EVMS is not activating volume groups?Is there any way to 
>    activate volume group?How to know using EVMS whether volume 
>    group or logical volume is active?

Activate command works fine for me.  I also have compatibility volume on
lvm2 regions.  Can you describe your setup?

> 
> 2) While creating a segment I gave 12MB size.
>    c:s,hda_freespace1,size=12Mb
>    It is creating with 7.84Mb.
>    With 15Mb also creating 7.84Mb.
>   
>    If I am creating with "evmsgui" it is creating with 15MB.
>    I didn't get the calculation of sizes on creating the segments?
>    Can any explain why it is varying?
> 
>    Why many differences are there between evms CLI and GUI.
>    Not only this creating a LVM2 region on RAID1 working with  
>    GUI but not with CLI.
> 

I don't see any differences between using evms/evmsn/evmsgui.  When I
specify 12MB for size, I get the same result : 11.78MB.

Here is detailed info form my disk:

Logical Disk Name: hda
Major: 3
Minor: 0
Active: TRUE
Logical Disk Size: 74.53 GB
Logical Disk Geometry: 65535 Cylinders, 16 Heads, 63 Sectors per Track,
512 Bytes per Sector
LBA of the 1024 Cylinder Limit: 1031184

Logical Disk Name: hdd
Major: 22
Minor: 64
Active: TRUE
Logical Disk Size: 3.93 GB
Logical Disk Geometry: 8184 Cylinders, 16 Heads, 63 Sectors per Track,
512 Bytes per Sector
LBA of the 1024 Cylinder Limit: 1031184

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Regards,
Mike T.