From: Michael Rohleder <mike@rohleder.de>
To: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What LVM support is missing?
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 18:37:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bln33bbu.fsf@rohleder.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftcfu9gv.fsf@latte.josefsson.org> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Mon, 04 May 2020 15:16:00 +0200")
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Hey Simon!
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
> I'm thinking that having the root file system on LVM may be unsupported,
> so that manual could say that, but I'm not even sure that is true. I
> haven't tried it though. Perhaps 'lvm2' should be pre-installed on the
> default installation image to help move LVM support along.
>
> Another thought may be that constructing LVM partitions through the
> mapped-device mechanism is not supported:
>
> http://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Mapped-Devices.html
>
> however as far as I can tell, LVM is working just as well as LUKS/RAID
> here: LVM just doesn't need any command to start the devices. The
> mapped-device approach appear to require out-of-band device creation for
> LUKS and RAID, just like is required for LVM. A no-op
> `lvm-device-mapping' could be added for completeness, and it might run
> 'pvscan --active ay' or something like that if we really wanted to but
> I'm not sure when that would be useful.
I use a root fs on lvm.
What helped me a lot was this posting, where I stole most things:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2020-02/msg00285.html
What (currrently) isnt working is the lvm device-mapper and (for me more
important) lvmcache...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-04 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-04 13:16 What LVM support is missing? Simon Josefsson
2020-05-04 16:10 ` Marius Bakke
2020-05-06 7:33 ` Simon Josefsson
2020-05-04 16:37 ` Michael Rohleder [this message]
2020-05-06 7:40 ` Simon Josefsson
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