<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Exchange Server">  <style></style> </head> <body> <font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2"> <div>Hi,</div> <div> </div> <div>I am configuring a service that uses HA-LVM and XFS filesystem on top of it.</div> <div>The filesystem will be backed up by a separate script run from cron(8) creating an LVM snapshot of the filesystem and mounting it on a mountpoint.</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div>To have a foolproof HA service I need to:</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; "> <li>Check, if the snapshot filesystem is mounted</li><li>If it is, all processes running in it need to be killed</li><li>Then the snapshot filesystem needs to be unmounted.</li></ul> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div>All of that is a prerequisite for HA-LVM to be able to do its work on the volume group. HA-LVM needs to deactivate the volume group. Once this is done the relocation of the service to another node will succeed</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div>I could configure a script resource with a script that would do the 3 steps listed above as part of its stop action. It would have essentially null start and status actions.</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div>Is there a better, more elegant way of achieving the same result e.g. using the filesystem resource?</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks and regards,</div> <div> </div> <div>Chris Jankowski</div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"> </font></div> </font> </body> </html>