Re: lvmcfg changes
* David Härdeman <david@2gen.com> [2006-05-20 11:09]:
> o Using lvs/pvs/vgs instead of vgdisplay + grep
>
> The former have an output which is optimized for script parsing
> which the latter doesn't. I've verified that lvs/pvs/vgs are present
> in the sarge lvm2 packages. As for lvm1 support, I can't verify
> that it is supported by vgs/lvs/pvs. [1] seems to suggest that
> it is in fact supported (see the first example).
Quite honestly, I'd just drop lvm1 support anyway.
> o partman-lvm and lvmcfg split
>
> Later it might make sense to merge lvmcfg into partman-lvm. tbm
> hinted on IRC that arch's without partman usually have no need
> for lvm either. Is partman not working on all archs? Does it
> matter?
Yeah, partman doesn't work on a number of architectures, e.g. SGI MIPS
machines. However, I doubt it matters a lot if LVM is available for
them or not.
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Martin Michlmayr
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