Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Osicki
Subject: Re: Question: array locking, possible? It looks like we are the only two md users interested in such a feature. Not enough to get Neil's attention ;-) Regards, Chris On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:45:33 +0100 Jure Peèar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:55:49 +0100

RE: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-13 Thread Stern, Rick (Serviceguard Linux)
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Osicki Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:13 AM To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question: array locking, possible? Rick On HP-UX disk mirroring is done in LVM. I'm using md driver for mirroring and LVM on top of it. Controlling access to my disks

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Osicki
Luca On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:48:48 +0100 Luca Berra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:28:58AM -0800, Stern, Rick (Serviceguard Linux) wrote: There is more interest, just not vocal. May want to look at LVM2 and its ability to use tagging to control enablement of VGs.

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Osicki
, Rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Osicki Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:13 AM To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question: array locking, possible? Rick On HP-UX disk mirroring is done in LVM. I'm using

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-13 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 06:52:47PM +0100, Chris Osicki wrote: Luca On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:48:48 +0100 Luca Berra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:28:58AM -0800, Stern, Rick (Serviceguard Linux) wrote: There is more interest, just not vocal. May want to look at LVM2 and

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-13 Thread Luca Berra
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:53:43PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: diff -urN mdadm-2.3.1/Assemble.c mdadm-2.3.1.exclusive/Assemble.c please note that the patch was written while i was composing the email as a proof-of-concept, it should not be considered working (or even compiling code) L. -- Luca

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-10 Thread Paul Clements
Jure Pečar wrote: I too am running a jbod with md raid between two machines. So far md never caused any kind of problems, altough I did have situations where both machines were syncing mirrors at once. If there's a little tool to reserve a disk via scsi, I'd like to know about it too. Even a

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-09 Thread Chris Osicki
It looks like we are the only two md users interested in such a feature. Not enough to get Neil's attention ;-) Regards, Chris On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:45:33 +0100 Jure Peèar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:55:49 +0100 Chris Osicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was

RE: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-09 Thread Stern, Rick (Serviceguard Linux)
2:26 AM To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question: array locking, possible? It looks like we are the only two md users interested in such a feature. Not enough to get Neil's attention ;-) Regards, Chris On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:45:33 +0100 Jure Peèar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-09 Thread Luca Berra
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:28:58AM -0800, Stern, Rick (Serviceguard Linux) wrote: There is more interest, just not vocal. May want to look at LVM2 and its ability to use tagging to control enablement of VGs. This way it is not HW dependent. I believe there is space in md1 superblock for a

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-09 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday February 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like we are the only two md users interested in such a feature. Not enough to get Neil's attention ;-) :-) Just because I haven't said anything doesn't mean I'm not listening. Cluster awareness is definitely on my radar. I have

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Osicki
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:16:20 -0800 Mike Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Osicki wrote: To rephrase my question, is there any way to make it visible to the other host that the array is up an running on the this host? Any comments, ideas? Would that not imply an unlock

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Osicki
I was thinking about it, I have no idea how to do it on Linux if ever possible. I connect over fibre channel SAN, using QLogic QLA2312 HBAS, if it matters. Anyone any hints? Thanks and regards, Chris On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:26:13 -0500 Paul Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Osicki

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-08 Thread Jure Pečar
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 11:55:49 +0100 Chris Osicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was thinking about it, I have no idea how to do it on Linux if ever possible. I connect over fibre channel SAN, using QLogic QLA2312 HBAS, if it matters. Anyone any hints? I too am running a jbod with md raid

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-07 Thread Mike Hardy
Chris Osicki wrote: To rephrase my question, is there any way to make it visible to the other host that the array is up an running on the this host? Any comments, ideas? Would that not imply an unlock command before you could run the array on the other host? Would that not then break

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-07 Thread Paul Clements
Chris Osicki wrote: The problem now is how to prevent somebody on the other host from accidentally assembling the array. Because the result of doing so would be something from strange to catastrophic ;-) To rephrase my question, is there any way to make it visible to the other host that the