[linux-lvm] SAN

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:

> What is the best way to deploy LVM in such a way that multiple servers could 
> access the LVs? Really what I'm looking for is a "common VG" for all of our 
> servers. Note though that only one server will actually access each LV, 
> however it would be cool if another server could make a snapshot to perform 
> an rsync backup.

This is what cluster LVM is for.  It provides a locking mechanism to
avoid conflicting changes to LVM metadata.

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