[DRBD-user] LVM (not cLVM) on pri/pri?

paddy at panici.net paddy at panici.net
Tue Sep 18 23:04:10 CEST 2007

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
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On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 12:56:40PM -0700, Kelly Byrd wrote:
> 
> I'm testing out a single drbd in pri/pri with a single volume group
> containing many logical volumes. The LVM scheme is static, I set it up
> once, it never changes when the drbd is live. I then ext3 format each LV. I
> mount half the LVs on one box, half on the other. On failure, I STONITH and
> mount the "other" LVs on the remaining box. Does this seem reasonable? LVM
> isn't changing underneath anyone and ext3 is only ever accessed by a single
> host at a time.

I am not familiar with the clvm stuff.

what you describe sounds like it would work.

philosophical contribution: 
beware bits of the plan that say "this will never happen"

Regards,
Paddy




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