From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i7BFvSa15628 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:57:28 -0400 Message-ID: <411A4182.C8A50168@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:55:46 +0200 From: Thomas Meller MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] free space for cluster use Reply-To: thomas.meller@gmx.net, 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: Linux-LVM@Sistina.com Is there any free sector that can be used by a cluster to store it's last lifesign in case of a partitioned network? I once had such a situation with a normal filesystem which was nasty enough. I plan to write a sektor via dd, containing a flag "in use" and a timestamp to be updated each minute. Is there any space left on a pv or a raid1 disk? I do not expect anyone to support this solution. (Solutions which work don't need support) I could also use some space behind the MBR instead, but that means to be forced to create partitions for lvm or raid. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Meller mailto: thomas.meller@t-systems.ch mailto: thomas.meller@gmx.net ---- ...Our continuing mission: To seek out knowledge of C, to explore strange UNIX commands, and to boldly code where no man page has ever been seen