[linux-lvm] Persistent minor number problem in lvm2
Chris Osicki
osk at admin.swisscom-mobile.ch
Mon Jan 8 11:24:21 UTC 2007
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 08:01:46 +0100
Hi Paul
Don't let OS generate filesystem handles from major/minor numbers.
Have a look at fsid option for exportfs (man 5 exports). It works.
It's how I implemented it on my failover NFS clusters.
BTW, persistent minors works as well, I found fsid easier to manage, though.
Hope it helps.
Regards
Chris
Rainer Krienke <krienke at uni-koblenz.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 4. Januar 2007 21:37 schrieb Mark H. Wood:
> > Mount by LABEL= or UUID=?
> >
> > Device node numbers are good for physical things like serial lines,
> > but not so good for logical things like storage volumes. If you can
> > label it, do, and always identify it by your label.
>
> I doubt that this would solve the problem since in the scenario I had, the
> client already had mounted a directory from a server. Then on the server the
> minor ids of exported NFS volumes changed and then the client did see
> the "wrong" contents in the "right" NFS share mounted from the server. The
> problem is that NFS relies on major, minor numbers in its protocol, I think.
> So UUIDs could only help in an initial mount but not later.
>
> Have a nice day
> Rainer
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