[Linux-cluster] mounting a replicated lun

Digimer lists at alteeve.ca
Wed Nov 20 21:33:06 UTC 2013


On 20/11/13 16:27, Paras pradhan wrote:
> I have a LUN which is mounted as gfs2. We replicated this LUN and will
> need to mount this replicated LUN to another mount point. To create a
> gfs2 mount point what I do is:  pvcreate , vgcreate -c , lvcreate then
> mkfs.gfs2 . But since this replicated it has already data on it .how do
> we mount this?
> 
> This is CentOS/RHEL 5.
> 
> Thanks
> Paras.

The mkfs.gfs2 will erase whatever is already on the LUN. The pvcreate
alone is probably enough to damage it. What FS is on it now?

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