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From: M. Mohan Kumar <mohan@in.ibm.com>
To: lvm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: lvm2-api usage in GlusterFS
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2012 23:24:02 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r4srquo5.fsf@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120704174148.GJ22022@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com>

On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 18:41:48 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:02:11PM +0530, M.Mohan Kumar wrote:
> > When open request comes in the gluster mount path, server side code
> > opens the intended LV by using this logic: /dev/<vg-name>/<lv-name>.
> > This path is actually a symbolic link to /dev/dm-<x>. Is my assumption
> > about having this /dev/<vg-name>/<lv-name> is it right? Will it
> > always work?
> 
> That is the right link to use as it depends only on the VG name and the LV
> name.
> 
> The /dev/mapper and /dev/dm-N entries might change.

Thanks Alasdair.

Do you have any idea about plan to add api support to resize lv and
create snapshot LVs?



  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-04 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-04 17:32 lvm2-api usage in GlusterFS M.Mohan Kumar
2012-07-04 17:41 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2012-07-04 17:54   ` M. Mohan Kumar [this message]
2012-07-04 20:57 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2012-08-24  7:22   ` M. Mohan Kumar
2012-08-27 18:23     ` M. Mohan Kumar

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