Re: [Sisuite-devel] Re: [Systeminstaller-users] Does systeminstaller support.LVM and RAID

[Brian E. F. <br...@bg...>]

Thanks, Gerry.

I've put LVM on the list for post-3.2.  (3.2 is about to freeze.)

BTW, I agree about the number of lists.  Perhaps we'll do something
about that soon.

Regards,

-Brian



Thus spake grenoml (gr...@ya...):
> Mike,
>   Thanks for the reply.  As I mentioned in one of my other posts to one
> of the sis lists (BTW: too many lists!):
>   Thought I would ask again since December.  I would like to
> use SIS, but unless it has at least LVM support we can't.  If you don't
> have it yet, LVM can't be that hard to add to the kernel (although I
> believe it does require at least a 2.4 level kernel).  Talk to
> Heinz (The LVM Guy) over at Sistina (http://www.sistina.com).  LVM has
> been great. Absolutely zero problems.  With it you can forget about
> filesystem sizing.  You can add,delete,shrink,expand filesystems at
> will.  Got a webserver running out of space?  No problem just throw in
> another disk and add it to the existing volume - presto, instant space.
>    No changes to software or configs.  Did I say I really like LVM? :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Gerry Reno
> 
> 
> --- Michael Chase-Salerno <mi...@ch...> wrote:
> > I don't think the SystemImager boot kernel supports LVM, so that work
> > would need to happen before SIS as a whole could support it. I'm
> > copying
> > this to sisuite-devel so someone there can correct me if I am
> > mistaken.
> > 
> > As to SW raid. I did look at this a while ago, and I think its
> > possible
> > to get it working with a carefully built disk table file, but I never
> > got more architected support going. Unlike LVM, SW raid is supported
> > by
> > SystemImager, so you can use it if you have a golden client or if you
> > can get a good autoinstallscript.conf file created.
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 17:39, grenoml wrote:
> > > Does systeminstaller support Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and
> > software
> > > RAID?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Gerry Reno
> > > 
> > > 
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