Re: [linux-lvm] Volume Groups and Clusters

[Joshua ChaitinPollak <jpollak kivasystems com>]

On Feb 22, 2006, at 3:49 AM, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:

> 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.

Right, but I don't need GFS if I'm only going to mount the file  
system on one machine at a time, right?

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Joshua ChaitinPollak
Software Engineer
Kiva Systems