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From: Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM over IP network
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:35:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1144686951.8591.103.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200604072216.14803.krakrjak@volumehost.net>

On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 22:16 -0500, Zac Slade wrote:
> On Friday 07 April 2006 07:59, rarulselvan@sify.com wrote:
> > I do understand that LVM and EVMS are quite useful for managing the disk
> > space in given work station. So I am wondering if there is such thing as
> > LVM over IP network ? so that I can maximize my disk usage. If not, what is
> > my other choice ?
> Why not?  Using iSCSI or ATAoE you can export the extra space from each of the 
> system as devices that will appear to be block devices.  From there you can 
> add them to a vg anytime you want.  Just be careful how you do it because if 
> one of the systems goes off the network you will not have access to the data 
> from that drive.  Also I'm not so sure how well LVM deals with having a drive 
> dissappear out from underneath it.

if one PV lose. u can active a partial VG and do read only LV on good
PVs.

ps, i do not understand why LV only allow read only access. anybody know
why?

ming

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-10 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-07 12:59 [linux-lvm] LVM over IP network rarulselvan
2006-04-08  3:16 ` Zac Slade
2006-04-10 16:35   ` Ming Zhang [this message]
2006-04-08 23:19 ` Sander Steffann
2006-04-10 16:33   ` Ming Zhang
2006-04-11  6:29     ` Zac Slade
2006-04-11 13:08       ` Ming Zhang

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