[Linux-cluster] DLM Problem

[jr]

Am Donnerstag, den 31.01.2008, 10:13 -0600 schrieb isplist at logicore.net:
> > You could just try it without LVM alltogether. LVM is entirely optional in
> > this.
> I didn't know that to be honest. I think you had mentioned it in another post. 
> Since day one my understanding was that GFS had to be set up using LVM. 
> What are the steps to creating a GFS volume without LVM?

hi there,
it's easy: don't make that disk/slice/raid/whatever an lvmvolume with
pvcreate but just run gfs_mkfs on the plain blockdevice.
but as this looks like a way weirder locking issue, gfs might not run at
all either.
oh, and you won't be able to grow your gfs without lvm, ofcourse.
johannes