[linux-lvm] Volume Groups and Clusters

[Heinz Mauelshagen]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:22:10PM -0500, Joshua ChaitinPollak wrote:
> Hello, I found this mention of sharing Volume Groups across Clusters  
> on the LVM howto:
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/sharinglvm1.html
> 
> Am I right in assuming that this means you can have a single volume  
> group active on multiple nodes in a cluster, provided that you doing  
> mount the same logical volume on more than one node at a time?

Yes, you assume right *but* you need a cluster filesystem (eg, GFS)
as well to be able to mount shared logical volumes on multiple nodes
at once or you mess up the data.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Josh
> 
> -- 
> Joshua ChaitinPollak
> Software Engineer
> Kiva Systems
> 
> 
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