[linux-lvm] mirrored LV + cmirror problem

[Lajkó Attila]

I disconnected the lun from both nodes and it worked, the LV went to  
linear. Thanks for the help!

One more question, what do you think about this testing scenario: Two- 
nodes cluster, each node has a local disk which is exported via GNBD  
to itself and to the other one. I build a cluster-mirrored LV on the  
GNBD devices, then I kill one of the nodes. In this case, the cmirror  
should work well? The LV will go to linear mode?

Attila

On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:30 PM, Jonathan Brassow wrote:

> That's the problem.  (C)LVM does not currently have a way to handle  
> the disappearance of a device from just one machine... it expects a  
> similar view of devices from all machines in a cluster.  "Locking"  
> on the second node fails because it doesn't know what to do with the  
> disk that it sees (that has been removed from the node suffering the  
> failure).
>
> There is someone working handling orphaned/removed devices that  
> reappear (which would be similar to this case), but I'm not sure if  
> they've taken this scenario into account.  I'll let him know about  
> this.
>
> brassow
>
> On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Lajkó Attila wrote:
>
>> Yes, I disconnected the lun via the Vtrak GUI from one of the nodes  
>> (el4).
>>
>> Attila
>>
>> On Feb 18, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Jonathan Brassow wrote:
>>
>>> How are you performing the failures?  It looks like just one  
>>> machine is loosing its connection to the device, while the other  
>>> machines links remain in place.
>>>
>>> brassow
>>>
>>>