[linux-lvm] Volume groups on SAN storage
Thomas Meller
thomas.meller at gmx.net
Fri Feb 13 09:05:33 UTC 2004
Hello everybody,
recently (today) I had a problem.
I'm trying to create a HA Cluster for a DCE server.
This is difficult work and sometimes very confusing.
My goal is to make it bootable from a SAN.
So far I managed to install GRUB and boot the machine. The rootfs and the rest can be
mounted.
I found, then, that the SCSI-devices inside one of my volume groups were the wrong ones.
What is special about that is that the same content on a device can be seen on different
SCSI-devices. This is due to some mirroring within the storage sytems. I cannot avoid that.
Now, I have a readonly physical volume inside one of my volume groups. I want to insert the
writeable mirror and get rid of the readonly.
AFAICS this is not possible because I cannot force vgscan to insert a specified SCSI-device.
Of course the VGDA is marked "part of VG xxx" and cannot be written anymore. So it cannot be
imported nor exported or added to a new VG.
Maybe there is an option anywhere how to scan a particular device.
Does anybody know how to trick LVM?
Is there a hexeditor to patch the VGDA backups to use different /dev/sdXX devices?
And if so, does that help?
I'm using redhat 8.0 and I'm bound to that version.
TIA
Thomas
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