[linux-lvm] Meta-flag: don't activate on boot

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:19:39PM +0100, Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote:
> It would be neat if there was a way to flag that a particular volume
> group should not be activated by default, typically at boot time,
> i.e. running 'vgchange -ay' shouldn't activate it. This is especially
> useful in clustering environments, when you want to "share" a volume
> group across several nodes for redundancy, but only activate it on one
> node at a time.
 
You can already do this using tagging.

Documentation:
  Man pages for lvm, lvm.conf, vgchange, lvchange & lvcreate.

  http://people.redhat.com/agk/talks/LVM2-LinuxTag2005/
    Tagging, Slide 30 onwards

  http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/LVM2/doc/tagging.txt?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=lvm2
    original specification

Alasdair
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