Which kernel?
Which of the recent kernels should I "upgrade" to in order to use LVM?
A little background. I recently, sometime last month, went to 2.4.0-test6 and put almost every parition I had under LVM. It worked great! The only problem is that test6 isn't the most stable of kernels at the moment. I haven't had any large problems with it, but I've been unable to do certain things, such as use the printer port, etc. Basically, I need to recompile the kernel, and I'm not confident that the "testX" series will do me good.
I was looking into going to a recent 2.2.x kernel (as in > 15 ), but noticed that the LVM patch wasn't available for these kernel versions. The last patch I saw on the "test" versions (2.3.x) was for 99, but since I'm not sure what the status is even on this test kernel, I'm still not sure I want to use "test" kernels any more. (Being bitten a couple times makes one nervous when handling the snake-like test's.)
What do you recommend I use? What's the status of the LVM patches to 2.2.x kernels? Anyone had overall success with the 2.4.0-testX series?
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Which of the recent kernels should I "upgrade" to in order to use LVM?
I've had good luck with 2.2.17. The 2.2.14 patch seems to work
fine against it. I've had some fun problems related to trying to manage RedHat's patches against the kernel in addition to LVMs, but these are largely a non-issue for 2.2.17 if you don't enable any of the md support.
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I was looking into going to a recent 2.2.x kernel (as in > 15 ), but noticed that the LVM patch wasn't available for these kernel versions. The last patch I saw on the "test" versions (2.3.x) was for 99, but since I'm not sure what the status is even on this test kernel, I'm still not sure I want to use "test" kernels any more. (Being bitten a couple times makes one nervous when handling the snake-like test's.)
What do you recommend I use? What's the status of the LVM patches to 2.2.x kernels? Anyone had overall success with the 2.4.0-testX series?
The lvm_0.8i patches against the 2.2.14 kernel worked OK for me
on the 2.2.17 kernel.
Also, you'll have to go to a 0.8-pre version of the lvm tools
because the ioctl protocol changed between lvm_0.8final and lvm-0.8-pre. You'll get weird protocol mismatch errors if you try to run the new tools with the slightly older driver.
As I understand it though, the on-disk data structures didn't
change, so your partitions should be OK.
Have fun (if at all possible),
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