[Linux-cluster] Online resizing CLVM PVs (with RHEL 5.3)

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Thu Dec 4 12:55:54 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:26:41PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hello list!
> 
> I've been trying out RHEL 5.3 beta/test packages for kernel and
> device-mapper-multipath that allows online resizing of SCSI and dm-mpath
> devices.
> 
> I've been able to successfully online resize:
> 
> - iSCSI LUNs
> - dm-mpath device that is on top of those iSCSI LUNs
> - LVM PV on top of that dm-mpath device
> - LVM volume from that PV/VG
> - And ext3 filesystem on top of that LVM volume
> 
> Now I'm wondering about online resizing shared/clustered CLVM PV.
> 
> Should it work just like that..? Make sure all servers in the cluster see 
> SCSI and dm-mpath devices resized, and after that just run pvresize? 
> 
> Thanks!
> 

Any comments about this? 

-- Pasi




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