[linux-lvm] ubuntu xenial + lvmlockd

[David Teigland]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 06:14:54PM +0200, Charles Koprowski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to set up a shared VG between 2 ubuntu servers (xenial) using
> lvmlockd for locking.
> 
> Unfortunately, even if the default config (lvm.conf) mentions the
> possibillity to use lvmlockd (use_lvmlockd = 1), I cannot find any trace of
> the daemon lvmlockd or lvmlockctl tool in ubuntu.
> 
> Does anyone already done this before ?
> 
> Do I have to build lvm from source in order to use lvmlockd ?

I'd guess that lvm was not built with lvmlockd support, in which case you
would need to rebuild it with one or both of --enable-lockd-sanlock,
--enable-lockd-dlm (and I'm going to rename those options to be "lvmlockd"
in a minute.)

Dave