[Linux-cluster] is necesary to to build GFS on top of LVM ?

[Roger Peña Escobio]

thanks

that clarified me a lot :-)

roger

--- "Patton, Matthew F, CTR, OSD-PA&E"
<Matthew.Patton.ctr at osd.mil> wrote:

> Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
> 
> > I understand that, but what I don not understant
> yet
> > is the "Often we can't extend the end of the
> > partition"
> 
> most of the time we deal with actual disks, not
> virtual disks ala SAN LUN's.
> SAN LUN's are no different than LVM's logical
> volumes. What you do with your
> EMC software when creating or extending a LUN is not
> one bit different from
> using fdisk to define new physical partitions on
> physical drives, creating
> PV's and VG's and then defining LV's. It just
> happens without you having to
> issue all those commands or know what's really going
> on inside. With a SAN,
> LVM is already happening and transparently to you.
> So layering on more LVM
> isn't very productive. UNLESS, you decide to treat
> the LUN like a physical
> disk and carve it into various partitions. In which
> case we're back to
> square 1.
> 
> Only when dealing with actual, raw hard drives (or
> hardware RAID volumes),
> or carved up LUNs do you run into the problem of 2
> partitions butted up
> against one other and the inability to grow the
> earlier one because growing
> it necessarily means overwriting the one behind it.
> Tools like Partition
> Magic have been around for quite some time and they
> are quite capable of
> moving partitions around the physical disk, but that
> generally take a lot of
> downtime.
> 
> > If I can't grow a LUN because the neighbors are
> too
> > close, the LVM is the way to go :-)
> 
> You can grow a LUN any which way you want and it
> doesn't matter to machines
> that want to use it as a disk. It's only when you
> start partitioning that
> LUN into more than 1 slice that you run afoul of the
> partition boundaries
> getting in the way. I would just create a LUN for
> each specific task (say
> your common GFS area) and when you run out of space,
> grow the LUN, grow the
> partition, and then grow the FS.
> 
> In my lab I'm running a poor man's SAN - siz 72GB
> drives in Raid10 and RAID5
> exported via iSCSI. Each machine gets their own
> scribble space and so I need
> to partition the RAID logical drive accordingly. If
> I used hard partitions
> it would be impossible to change space allocation
> later so I use LVM to give
> each machine it's own partition. and if I need to
> change it, I can do so
> trivially. As far as the client machines are
> concerned they are dealing with
> their very own drive and have no idea I'm giving
> them space that could be
> scattered all over the place. If I partition the
> iSCSI LUN on the client,
> then I either treat it as raw disk and run the risk
> of sizing stuff wrong,
> create just a single partition, or virtualize it
> again using client LVM.
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