[Linux-cluster] GFS + DLM howto?

Patrick Caulfield pcaulfie at redhat.com
Fri Oct 14 07:09:56 UTC 2005


Bowie Bailey wrote:
> I seem to be missing something.
> 
> I have been able to configure cluster.conf and get ccsd and clvmd
> running, but it fails when I try to initialize the physical volume.
> 
>     # pvcreate /dev/etherd/e1.0
>       Device /dev/etherd/e1.0 not found.
> 
> The device is definitely there and I can ping it with the aoeping
> command.
> 
>     # ll /dev/etherd/
>     total 4
>     -rw-r--r--  1 root root        1 Oct 13 14:33 discover
>     brw-------  1 root disk 152, 256 Oct 12 17:07 e1.0
> 

You might need to add the device to the 'devices' section of /etc/lvm/lvm.conf, eg:

   types = [ "etherd", 16 ]

The name (I've used etherd here as a guess) is the device name that appears in
/proc/partitions. The number (16) is the maximum number of partitions per device.

-- 

patrick




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