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From: Digimer <lists@alteeve.ca>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: lihuiba <magazine.lihuiba@163.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM high availability
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:22:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BB351E.4020707@alteeve.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16dd71d1.f00b.13f3e5336d3.Coremail.magazine.lihuiba@163.com>

On 06/13/2013 12:16 PM, lihuiba wrote:
> Please consider the following case:
> there are multiple storage servers each configured as LVM on top of a RAID,
> and the servers are connected by DRBD to synchronize the RAIDs.
>
> The question is
> 1) can I safely active a read-only volume on all of the servers?

Depends on your file system. GFS2 and OCFS2 is fine. Most all others are 
not. In either case, you can't mount a Secondary DRBD resource no matter 
what.

> 2) can I safely active a read-write volume on a randomly chosen server?

You need a cluster-aware files system like GFS2 and, in the context of 
LVM, you need clustered VGs and LVs which requires clvmd to be running.

> 3) how about thin pool and volumes?

I've not played with these.

-- 
Digimer
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What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without 
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-14 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-13 16:16 [linux-lvm] LVM high availability lihuiba
2013-06-14 15:22 ` Digimer [this message]
2013-06-21  6:44   ` Marian Csontos
2013-06-21  7:32     ` matthew patton
2013-06-23 14:32     ` lihuiba
2013-06-24  8:21       ` Zdenek Kabelac
2013-06-27  3:19         ` Huiba Li
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-09-27 19:57 [linux-lvm] LVM High Availability Michael J Kellen
2000-09-28  4:59 ` Michael Lausch

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