I'll probably be opening a support ticket with RedHat on this today. I
can't restart clvmd every time I need a new LV, as it requires umounting
all the active LVs in each clustered VG.
 
Thanks for confirming!
 
Kevin

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zavodsky, Daniel
(GE Money)
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:58 PM
To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list
Subject: RE: [rhelv5-list] Clustered LVM


Hello,
    I have been experiencing exactly the same issues... and I found the
trick with restarting clvmd myself too. :-) It looks like the problem
happens when you are using both non-clustered and clustered LVM.
    I don't think you are doing anything wrong.
 
Regards,
    Daniel
 


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Collins, Kevin
[Beeline]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 9:08 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [rhelv5-list] Clustered LVM



Hi, 

        I am working through the process of building my first GFS
installation and cluster. So far, things are going well. I have shared
SAN disk that is visible to both nodes, I've got the basic cluster up
and I am now starting to create my LVM structure.

I spent a lot of time trying to determine why I was seeing errors
similar to the following when trying to create LVs in a new VG:

root# lvcreate -L 50M /dev/vgtest 
  Rounding up size to full physical extent 52.00 MB 
  Error locking on node cpafisxb: Volume group for uuid not found:
IC070PzNGG68uEesi33dH902E4GeGEvwcAccZY4AdnJRkPHUL7EYJzL0Xxkg3eqV

  Error locking on node cpafisxa: Volume group for uuid not found:
IC070PzNGG68uEesi33dH902E4GeGEvwcAccZY4AdnJRkPHUL7EYJzL0Xxkg3eqV

  Failed to activate new LV. 

I noticed that I did not have a /dev/vgtest on the node where I created
the VG. I discovered (by googling the error message above) that another
person had seen a similar problem and resolved it by restarting the
clvmd service. I did the same thing and the problem was resolved - I
don't see that error when creating LVs in that VG, and I now have a
/dev/vgtest and associated files (only on the node I created it on).

Now, I created a new VG, try to create a new LV within it and see the
same error! I see in the clvmd man page that there is a "-R" option,
which sounds like maybe what should be done instead of restarting clvmd.
Tried it, but no luck - same error and no /dev/ directory created.
Restart clvmd, instant fix.

So - what am I doing wrong here? I can't imagine I am supposed to
restart clvmd every time I create a new VG, am I? 

Additionally, I can see the clustered VGs and LVs on my other node, but
there are not any files in /dev for the clustered VGs - is this normal?
I have also restarted clvmd there with no effect.

Thanks, 

Kevin 

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