From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from o.ww.redhat.com (vpn-4-2.stuttgart.redhat.com [10.32.4.2]) by pobox.stuttgart.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1M8n3Cb004386 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:49:03 +0100 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:49:02 +0100 From: Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Volume Groups and Clusters Message-ID: <20060222084902.GB23655@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Reply-To: mauelshagen@redhat.com, LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:22:10PM -0500, Joshua ChaitinPollak wrote: > Hello, I found this mention of sharing Volume Groups across Clusters > on the LVM howto: > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/sharinglvm1.html > > Am I right in assuming that this means you can have a single volume > group active on multiple nodes in a cluster, provided that you doing > mount the same logical volume on more than one node at a time? Yes, you assume right *but* you need a cluster filesystem (eg, GFS) as well to be able to mount shared logical volumes on multiple nodes at once or you mess up the data. > > Thanks, > > Josh > > -- > Joshua ChaitinPollak > Software Engineer > Kiva Systems > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Cluster and Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-