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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:55:54PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 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? 
> 

And now when RHEL 5.3 is out.. ? :)

Has anyone done this already? 

-- Pasi