[TriLUG] cool underexposed Linux toys - LVM

[Ron Joffe]

On Wednesday 23 July 2003 09:45 pm, Magnus wrote:

> I know that Red Hat 9 has LVM support in the installer, and I am told
> Mandrake has had this for some time.  Older versions of Red Hat don't
> seem to have full support for this, and by extension some of the Red
> Hat offshoots don't seem to yet.  The HOWTO describes, well, HOW TO
> install LVM on systems that don't already have it.

Just a quick note on LVM and OS support. We needed to have LVM support on Red 
Hat Advanced Server (RHAS). However without rendering the kernel 
unsupportable (by Red Hat's terms) we were not able to provide our customers 
with LVM under RHAS. For those of us who have come to learn and really 
appreciate LVM, this is extremely frustrating to have an "Enterprise" version 
of Linux without LVM.

If you are looking for a distro which has complete OS level support for LVM, I 
would like to point you toward SuSE's line of products, not only have they 
been supporting LVM for quite a number of years, they have one of the 
absolutely slickest LVM interfaces I have seen in any Linux / Unix OS. You 
have the option of digging in really deep and exposing all of the wonderful 
low level LVM commands, or using a GUI which completely masks all of the 
operations, and provides you a "no-brainer" approach to LVM.

Ron


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