Re: lvm 0.8 to 0.9 conversion?

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:43:39 +0100


On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:18:53PM +0000, Todd M. Roy wrote:
>
> I've been on vacation....
>
> Nope, no snapshots.
>
> Well, I couldn't get my orginal volume group visible under both
> lvm 0.8 and 0.9. I don't know why. So I grabbed a big empty hard disk,
> created a new volume group that was visible under both, dded all the logical
> volumes over to it, updated fstab and removed the offending vg. I've yet to
> recreate the original vg, copy stuff back and remove the new drive.
> I should point out that the offending vg was relatively ancient, I think I
> created it when 0.7 was king under some something like 2.2.14. Now I'm
> running 2.4.0-ac4 and all works well.

Good. You may consider to also apply this kernel-driver bugfix for
online extent/reduce of the VG and other assorted fixes:

ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.4/2.4.0ac2/lvm-fix-1

I sumbitted them to Heinz a few days ago so that he can merge them with Linus.

Andrea
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