Ubuntu distro needs a patch for LVM

[Alexander Skwar]

· David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com>:

> Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> writes:
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>> · David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com>:
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>>> Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> writes:
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>>>> · David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com>:
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>>>>> Dapper (and Breezy for that matter) installation doesn't support
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>>>>> LVM well; it's almost as though it was untested.  Try to set up a
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>>>>> system with LVM from any of the different installation discs, and
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>>>>> you'll see what I mean.
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>> Btw: "From *any* of the different installation discs"? I again fail
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>> to understand what you mean. There's just *one* installation disc,
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>> as far as LVM is concerned.
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> I guess I may have tried kubuntu also, and I may have tried to install
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> over existing LVM with one of the non-alternate discs.

Hmm. It's documented, that only the alternate discs support LVM.

>>> That's not the test, though: the test is to start with a fresh LVM
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>>> install.
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>> Fine - and what should I notice?
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>> I just create a new image in VMware for Ubuntu. I then booted the
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>> alternative CD and went on to the partitioning of the harddisk. I
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>> was able to select that the blank "hard disk" should be used as
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>> a PV and I could then create a VG consisting of this PV.
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>> As I said: I fail to see what you mean. It would *REALLY* help, if
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>> you'd write, what you mean, instead of giving some vague hints...
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> http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cu4pxpy4dx.fsf%40boost%2dconsulting.com%3e

I'm too lazy. What's written there?

Anyway, it's a fact that the installer supports LVM. Please show,
how it does not.

>> I still don't get you. With the installer, I could create logical
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>> volumes, could've removed lvs, could've modified vgs, could've created
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>> vgs and so on. As i said: Stop that FUD, please!
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> So it works for some and not for others.

Ok.

> http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cusll9wnr0.fsf%40boost%2dconsulting.com%3e

What's written there?

>> PS: Why did your client insert a blank line after every line? Makes
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>> reading *quite* hard....
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> I wish I knew!
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> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/63310

emacs... Well, try to use vi :)

Alexander Skwar
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