Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Well it came in to play when I had one large 'resource' configured (Primary/Primary, if I didn't mention that yet), and I wanted to create several 'logical volumes' on that resource, so that my multiple virtual machines would have a defined sized box to live in. This brought me to the DRBD User's Guide, Chap. 10, Using GFS with DRBD. On the page: Configuring LVM to recognize the DRBD resource, it states that GFS uses CLVM. This is where I was blindly following along without knowing exactly what I was doing. All I knew was that I needed a 'cluster-aware' filesystem like OCFS2 or GFS. Where I got stopped was: errors creating the logical volumes, and not knowing how to configure CLVM to work with my system. So that is a different path than I am on now... but If it leads somewhere where I want to be, I'm all ears! Thanks, Colin. On Friday 05 September 2008 20:22:08 Jerry Amundson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Colin <cbex at xplornet.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the response Jerry. I'm in the middle of trying a different > > approach, but I'm willing to do it the "right way" if there such a thing. > > Yes, with *nix, there is always a "right way". (Un)Fortunately, there > is N+1 ways of implementing it the "right way", for all values of N, > and for any value of "it". :-) > > > My use case is: > > > > I have two identical servers, each with a single SATA 500G drive. Each > > has 2 NIC's being used as 1GB x-over, and 100MB for the network. > > I plan to host virtual machines on a Debian Lenny OS with a large shared > > DRBD mirrored partition. (and hopefully linux-ha with bonded IP's) > > And...so? > Back to my original question - where does clvm fit in? > > jerry