Re: [linux-lvm] Re: Configuring boot partition with LVM (fwd)

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: Configuring boot partition with LVM (fwd)

[Peter.Wuestefeld]

>> >  Lilo
>> > should also learn how to boot a kernel fom a striped volume...
>>
>> I don't think you fully appreciate the request you're making here.
>> Commercial Unices such as HP-UX and Solaris can not boot from striped
>> volumes for about the same reasons why it would be difficult to have
>> LILO read from a striped volume: the implications are just too
>> horrendous to comtemplate.

>At least the IBM people with the AIX LVM are able to make that work.
>The
>only thing that they were not able for a long time is to make system
>dumps work in such a configuration. But I believe that even that works
>under AIX 4.3.x now.

-- 
Jens-Uwe Mager           <pgp-mailto:62CFDB25>

True. And the latter works really well on standalone systems and in an SP.

BTW:

http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/jfs/index.html

IBM JOINS EFFORTS TO DEVELOP ENTERPRISE FILE SYSTEM FOR LINUX

At LinuxWorld today, IBM announced the contribution of technology
and talent to help make Linux a high-performance operating system
in e-business environments.

Part of a line up of new IBM initiatives, the open-source contribution
is designed to accelerate development of a journaling file system for
Linux capable of protecting the integrity of corporate data during power
outages and other system failures.
This capability is particularly important in e-business environments,
where Web sites can receive millions of hits a day and Web application
servers are caching massive amounts of data.

IBM will assign a dedicated team of software engineers to work with the
open source community in developing an enterprise-level journaling file
system for Linux.  Journaling enhances a file system's ability to track
transactions and log operations, and can retrieve file data quickly and
intact if a system fails or gets shut down prematurely.

IBM's journaled file system technology, currently used in IBM enterprise
servers,is designed for high-throughput server environments, key to 
running
intranet and other high-performance e-business file servers.
The source code is now available for download from the Open Source and
Linux zones in the IBM developerWorks* website (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks).


Mit freundlichem Gruss/Best Regards

Peter Wuestefeld
IBM Certified System Administrator AIX 4.3
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Re: [linux-lvm] Re: Configuring boot partition with LVM (fwd)

[Daniel Whicker]

>At least the IBM people with the AIX LVM are able to make that work.
>The
>only thing that they were not able for a long time is to make system
>dumps work in such a configuration. But I believe that even that works
>under AIX 4.3.x now.

Actually, with AIX, they reserve at least one PP (PE) at the very beigining 
of each disk, which gives you at least a 4 meg contiguous area in which to 
put the kernel.  The bosboot copies the kernel into this area.  Really not 
to different that creating a /boot or a /stand.
									-Daniel
		------------------------------------------
		Daniel Whicker  (heimdall@mail.org)

[linux-lvm] Re: Configuring boot partition with LVM (fwd)

[Michael Marxmeier]

Forwarded message ...

-------- Original Message --------
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 23:11:24 +0100
Resent-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 2:27:50 MEZ
From: Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@anubis.han.de>
To: Jos Visser <josv@osp.nl>
Cc: Fabian.Herschel@suse.de, linux-lvm@msede.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Configuring boot partition with LVM
In-Reply-To: <389EF4DE.68165A11@osp.nl>; from josv@osp.nl on Mon, Feb
07, 2000 at 05:37:50PM +0100

On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 05:37:50PM +0100, Jos Visser wrote:
> >  Lilo
> > should also learn how to boot a kernel fom a striped volume...
>
> I don't think you fully appreciate the request you're making here.
> Commercial Unices such as HP-UX and Solaris can not boot from striped
> volumes for about the same reasons why it would be difficult to have
> LILO read from a striped volume: the implications are just too
> horrendous to comtemplate.

At least the IBM people with the AIX LVM are able to make that work.
The
only thing that they were not able for a long time is to make system
dumps work in such a configuration. But I believe that even that works
under AIX 4.3.x now.

-- 
Jens-Uwe Mager	<pgp-mailto:62CFDB25>