On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:31:31PM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello, > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:26:47AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Well, I was told differently by a Debian Developer on Linuxtag, who > > > > Who was it ? > > Martin Michlmayr. > > > > Well, lvm works nicly. The only "trick" is to set it up on the command > > > line during the install (i.e., leave the gui for that). There are some > > > minor issues in some tools (#281925 and #287670), but they can be > > > easily worked around during operation. (I have not tried to reduce the > > > size of a LV, though). > > > > Ah, didn't try any of those too, just created the LVM partitions. I don't > > care > > strongly enough to pursue this though, so you are welcome to take this on > > you > > shoulder and become de facto LVM-on-powerpc maintainer. I will code the > > parted > > part of it once a consensus is reached about this with upstream. Please CC > > me > > (or debian-powerpc) on any such discussion though > > This is far beyond my coding power (and my time).
This has nothing to do with coding power, it just need a decision to be taken, and i will code it. My proposal is to implement the lvm and raid flags as partition type strings in mac partitions, i would call these "Linux_RAID", and "Linux_LVM". I will fix parted so that a RAID or LVM flag will set these partition types, like it is done on x86. Colin Watson discouraged me to do this without consensus with lvm and mdadm upstream, which i don't have time to search, in order to not find a situation where the scheme changes and we are forced in a compatibility dilemna. I don't have time to follow this, but there seem to be any number of people interested in this, who can take the time to do these discussions. > > Indeed. Please go ahead and fill a bug report against partman, or start the > > discussion about this with the lvm-tools maintainers. > > I made an installation report (which prompted above conversation). I > can clone it to partman, if you think it is sensible. Sure, but it depends on the above choice. I think it would be sensible to fix the above instead. I would have done it, but i am maybe more foolhardy than others in the debian-installer team :). Friendly, Sven Luther
