>>> Lars Marowsky-Bree <[email protected]> schrieb am 03.12.2013 um 15:34 in
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<[email protected]>:
> On 2013-12-02T09:22:10, Ulrich Windl <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 
>> >> No!
>> > 
>> > Then it can't work. Exclusive activation only works for clustered volume
>> > groups, since it uses the DLM to protect against the VG being activated
>> > more than once in the cluster.
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Try it with "resource-agents-3.9.4-0.26.84": it works; with 
> "resource-agents-3.9.5-0.6.26.11" it doesn't work ;-)
> 
> You thought it was working, but in fact it wasn't. ;-)

"working" meaning "the resource started".
"not working" meaning "the resource does not start"

You see I have minimal requirements ;-)

> 
> Or at least, not as you expected.
> 
>> You could argue that it never should have worked. Anyway: If you want
>> to activate a VG on exactly one node you should not need cLVM; only if
>> you man to activate the VG on multiple nodes (as for a cluster file
>> system)...
> 
> You don't need cLVM to activate a VG on exactly one node. Correct. And
> you don't. The cluster stack will never activate a resource twice.

Occasionally two safty lines are better than one. We HAD filesystem
corruptions due to the cluster doing things it shouldn't do.

> 
> You need cLVM if you want LVM2 to enforce that at the LVM2 level -
> because it does this by getting a lock on the VG/LV, since otherwise
> LVM2 has no way of knowing if the VG/LV is currently active somewhere
> else. And this is what "exclusive=true" turns on.
> 
> If you don't want that to happen, exclusive=true is not what you want to
> set.

That makes sense, but what I don't like is that I have to mess with local
lvm.conf files...


All the best,
Ulrich

> 
> 
> Regards,
>     Lars
> 
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