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From: Patrick Caulfield <caulfield@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Dangerous Recipes
Date: Tue Jan 28 02:17:01 2003	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030128081507.GA31789@tykepenguin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <022501c2c644$92634410$4b66699f@win.doc.state.vt.us>

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 03:42:13PM -0500, Joseph Kezar wrote:
> I have a single shared SCSI JBOD.  And it makes up my VolumeGroupMailData.
> 
> It is mounted read/write by only 1 node at any given time.  This is strictly
> enforced.
> 
> Although, at boot both nodes vgchange -a y the Volume Group.
> So it is picked up in vgscan as an active VG on node1 and node2
> I am aware if I need to make a change, like adding a Logical Volume,
> Extending/Reducing a Logical Volume, or adding/subtracting a physical volume
> that the volume must be deactivated on the secondary node(in my case node
> 2).
> 
> If everything goes well enforced, am I still in trouble or at risk of data
> corruption?

If you are careful it should be fine. 

What you must always remember to do is "vgchange -an" on the secondary node
before doing the metadata changes, then a "vgscan;vgchange -ay" on that node
after the metadata changes.

-- 

patrick

      reply	other threads:[~2003-01-28  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-27 14:43 [linux-lvm] Dangerous Recipes Joseph Kezar
2003-01-28  2:17 ` Patrick Caulfield [this message]

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