From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (vpn-68-1.surrey.redhat.com [10.32.68.1]) by pobox.surrey.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1MDCG3E028700 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:12:17 GMT Message-ID: <43FC6330.3090406@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:12:16 +0000 From: Patrick Caulfield MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Volume Groups and Clusters References: <20060222084902.GB23655@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: 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" To: LVM general discussion and development Joshua ChaitinPollak wrote: > > On Feb 22, 2006, at 3:49 AM, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > >> 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. > > Right, but I don't need GFS if I'm only going to mount the file system > on one machine at a time, right? No, just a lot of care and discipline :) -- patrick