From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 14:40:03 +0200 From: Adrien Farkas Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM, raw-io, devfs Message-ID: <19991001144003.B29576@redneck.sk.oracle.com> Reply-To: freddy@sk.oracle.com References: <006201bf0bb7$6eae4a60$030116ac@fd1> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <006201bf0bb7$6eae4a60$030116ac@fd1> Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Fernando Dammous Cc: linux-lvm@msede.com Fernando Dammous (ferdam@internetcom.com.br) wrote : > LVM 0.7 is installed (built into the kernel, which is still in the version 2.0.36) and working perfectly, with the root filesystem and swap in a LV (boot with initrd). > > Now, I would like to install the devfs and mainly the raw-io. > > Can I install them in a kernel 2.0.36, which is already patched with LVM? > > Should I apply the patches in which order (first devfs, later the raw-io, or vice versa)? > > I intend to install Oracle8 using raw-io. well, I'm still not sure whether Oracle software is compatible with raw-io patch in linux kernel, please let me know how are you doing with that. > The devfs isn't so important for me (should it be ?). devfs is a very usable patch compatible with most of devices (including LVM) and software (I can only think of vmware that doesn't run with vmware). it saves a lot of inodes in /dev and contains only devices really present in the system and uses intelligent backward-compatible naming scheme (so you can still use inodes like /dev/sda etc) present in many modern UN*X flavors (like Solaris, e.g.). You should give it at lease a chance before saying you use it only because of raw-devices ;) > If anyone knows about restrictions or some clues I would thank a lot. Regards, -- freddy ----==-- _ Adrien "freddy" Farkas ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ freddy@sk.oracle.com --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / We all know Linux is great... It -=====/_/_//_/\___/ /_/\_\ does infinite loops in 5 seconds