Is LVM supported in YDL 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3?

[Peter A. Castro]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Eddie Bindt wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >   We have some old systems running LinuxPPC 1999 that we want to upgrade
> > to YDL.  At the same time we want to add more disk to these systems and
> > create some very large filesystems (~100Gb).  To do this, we'll need
> > something like LVM.
> >   I've been searching the YDL email archives and the list of packages
> > provided with YDL 2.1, 2.2 or 2.3, but I can't seem to determine if LVM
> > is supported/provided or not.  Is LVM bundled with YDL or do I need to go
> > grab the packages myself and build 'em?  If it's already provided in 2.3,
> > I'll go order a copy right now. 
> 
> Peter,

Eddie!
  Long time no "see"!-)

> I use LVM for a while on my ANS ... It runs a (sort of) standard YDL 2.3
> kernel/distro  and a couple of RPMS to manage LVM ... I don't know if they 
> are in the distro, but I found it easy to add ...

That's kinda what I gathered, but wanted to make sure.  Since you've got
2.3 on your ANS (and my systems are ANSs) did you do a clean install of
2.3 or upgrade from some previous release?  Did you have to build your
own kernel (any new patches needed for the ANS?) and did you have to make
any changes to the ramdisk image?  For that matter, were you able to use
the ramdisk image off of the CD or did you need to put it on floppies?

When I last played with YDL 2.1 (on a RiscPC), I had to build a special
kernel, and modify the ramdisk AND put it all on floppies.  Hope it's a
little easier with 2.3 :)

> Eddie
> >   Thanks in advance!

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