[Linux-cluster] Clustered LVM for storage

Arnold Krille arnold at arnoldarts.de
Mon Mar 12 19:52:58 UTC 2012


On Monday 12 March 2012 18:40:36 Xavier Montagutelli wrote:
> On Friday 09 March 2012 16:55:36 Jeff Sturm wrote:
> > Sure.   As long as you don't try to make use of any LVM features that
> > require metadata consistency (mirroring, snapshots, online resizing, etc.)
> > you can get by using LVM without clustering.
> 
> Yes, particulary using the (relatively new) options of lvchange / vgchange :
> 
> --refresh
>    If any logical volume in the volume group is active, reload its metadata.
> This is not necessary in normal operation, but may be use-
>    ful if something has gone wrong or if you're doing clustering manually
>    without a clustered lock manager.

I think when you disable the cache in all the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf, the result 
should be the same...

Have fun,

Arnold
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