[linux-lvm] Running LVM on shared lun's

[Luca Berra]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:11:24AM +0400, Sid Polak wrote:
>Luca Berra wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:23:04AM -0700, David Chan wrote:
>> > 
>> >Don't think LVM is cluster aware.  Doing so can potentially cause loss
>> >of LV's/data due to metadata corruption on the LVM level.  
>> LVM2 supports cluster locking, either using internal locking which works
>> with CMAN or GULM, or by using an external locking library that can be
>> customized to work with every cluster software that supports locking of
>>resources.
>
>And what about tags? Could I use hostname tag to activate LVs on one host OR
>another host which hostname is equal to the tag? That is not failover but
>it could reduce recovery time after the failure of one of the hosts. Isn't it?
>
yes.

L.

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