Sorry -- You are correct... it is actually under evms for the ocfs2 partitions. This has been a crazy week for me.
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Brian Kroth <bpkr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Angelo McComis <ang...@mccomis.com> 2009-09-29 11:19: >> I'm sorry -- it's lvm2, and yes. :-) >> >> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Charlie Sharkey >> <charlie.shar...@bustech.com> wrote: >> > >> > It was mentioned: >> > >> > - Checked our lvm configuration - seems to be good as well. >> > >> > Is lvm supported by ocfs2 ? > > I didn't think this part was true. The issue being that all nodes need > to be aware of possible metadata changes to the volume group and logical > volumes. > > clvm (which I believe is supported by Novell) can handle that locking > between nodes so that they have a consistent view of the metadata, but > last I checked it used a different cluster stack that wasn't quite > supported by ocfs2 yet and running both sided by side would run into > some fencing issues. > > Alternatively I think you can (read unsupported, but does work) do > simple LVM configurations like linear spans since they don't have any > striping metadata information that needs to be updated. The trick is > that you need to take everything offline when you want to make any > changes to the volume group or logical volume. > > Brian > _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list Ocfs2-users@oss.oracle.com http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
