LVM

From: Witvliet, Hans (Hans.Witvliet@Alcatel.nl)
Date: Mon May 07 2001 - 04:22:25 PDT

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From: "Witvliet, Hans" <Hans.Witvliet@Alcatel.nl>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 13:22:25 +0200 
Subject: LVM

    Hi Thorsten,

    You wrote that lvm on ULTRAsparc does not work. Is it restricted to ultra
    only, or is it a general SPARC problem.
    How about 32-bit sparc (like sun-4M) machines?

    Hans.

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Thorsten Kukuk [SMTP:kukuk@suse.de]
    > Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 8:02 AM
    > To: Craig Barnes
    > Cc: Peter Ebbelink; suse-sparc@suse.com
    > Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] SCSI disk limit of 16
    >
    > On Sun, May 06, Craig Barnes wrote:
    >
    > > Hi, just to clarify, I have 6 SCSI controllers and 29 disks across them.
    > >
    > > I know all about SCSI, it's the linux side I was confused about. I have
    > > installed SCSI tools now and that has fixed 99% of my problems. I can't
    > seem
    > > to run pvcreate on the 29th disk, so I can run fdisk on it and mkfs it,
    > but
    > > pvcreate bitches about the device not existing. In /dev/scsi I have the
    > > device and it's a shambolic link to /dev/sdad, but it don't work in LVM.
    >
    > Ah, now we come to the real problem: LVM on UltraSPARC does not work. It
    > is really bad. The wrappers for 32bit userland <-> 64bit kernel space
    > seems the be buggy, and if you get this working, LVM crashes if you access
    > the lvm volume.
    >
    > Thorsten
    >

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