Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-18 Thread Zachary Kotlarek
On Jan 18, 2012, at 9:25 PM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > You just need to ensure vgchange can find the PV(s) when you run it at boot > time; it doesn't use the info in the partition table to do that. :-) In fact it doesn't need partitions at all -- you can just use the raw device. > RAID: fdisk

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-18 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:29:06PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> >>>     Filesystems >>> >>>       Compare Ext2/3/4, Reiser4, JFS, XFS (Add jfsutils to the book) >>> >>  I've no useful comments on the rest of this, but isn'

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-18 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > About Filesystems, LVM, and RAID > > > Filesystems > > Compare Ext2/3/4, Reiser4, JFS, XFS (Add jfsutils to the book) > > Mention FAT/NTFS, BTRFS, ISO9660, and UDF > > LVM > fdisk type 8e Note that this is absolutely not required. I'm using part

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:29:06PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >> Filesystems >> >> Compare Ext2/3/4, Reiser4, JFS, XFS (Add jfsutils to the book) >> > I've no useful comments on the rest of this, but isn't reiser4 more > or less defunct at the moment? Btrfs seems t

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-18 Thread Andrew Benton
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:47:36 + Ken Moffat wrote: > I've no useful comments on the rest of this, but isn't reiser4 more > or less defunct at the moment? Btrfs seems to be where development > that will get into the kernel seems to be happening, although I'm > not sure it's yet ready (e.g. fsc

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-18 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:29:06PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > Filesystems > > Compare Ext2/3/4, Reiser4, JFS, XFS (Add jfsutils to the book) > I've no useful comments on the rest of this, but isn't reiser4 more or less defunct at the moment? Btrfs seems to be where development

[lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been thinking about the discussion we had earlier and think a couple of pages added to BLFS would be a good start (yes, I know this is lfs-dev). The outline of the pages is below and I'm looking for feedback. There is a nice tutorial at http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm that I intend to