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Has anyone gotten LVM working on the dns-323?
I assume that you would probably not want to do this on the existing /dev/sdx2 and /dev/sdx4 (where x=a,b) partitions or on the /dev/md0 raid partions since then the dns-323 would likely either hang or otherwise mess up on boot since it wouldn't be able to mount the corresponding partitions.
Thus, I am looking to create a *new* same size partition on each drive and first build it into a raid array and then add LVM. I just want to make sure that the dns will support LVM and that creating such a partition won't cause the dns to either choke or try to repartition what it may see as a "wrong" configuration.
So, some questions for the gurus:
- If I were to shrink down sda2 and sdb2 to some minimal amount, could I then add in another partition in the empty space (for creating an LVM partition or actually LVM on top of RAID1) or would the dns-323 wizard see the "hole" and keep trying to repartition?
- Does the stock d-link kernel contain support for lvm or would I need to recompile the kernel to add support?
- Has anybody compiled the user-space tools for manipulating LVM arrays?
The reason I am interested in LVM is the ease with which it allows adding/subtracting new or larger disks. My thinking is that one day I might want to upgrade to a NAS with more than 2 drives or to a larger disk or potentially even maybe swap the drives to a server. LVM seems to ease the transition and avoid having to resize/shrink/grow filesystems. Also, as a user of backuppc (which generates gazillions of hard links) copying over partial filesystems is slow since the hard links need to be all found and copied over properly whereas LVM would ease that.
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