Q: Moving raid1 array to another host, safe?

2005-03-14 Thread Chris Osicki
Hi I have two Linux boxes running kernel 2.4.21 having access to two devices over fibre channel SAN. What I'm trying to achive is host based mirroring with ability to move the storage from one host to another. On the firs host I created a raid1 array, put LVM on it, created a filesystem. To move

Question: read-only array

2006-02-06 Thread Chris Osicki
Hi I've just noticed that setting an array readonly doesn't really make it readonly. I have a RAID1 array and LVM on top of it. When I run /sbin/mdadm --misc --readonly /dev/md0 /proc/mdstat shows: Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active (read-only) raid1 sda[0] sdb[1] 160436096 blocks

Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-07 Thread Chris Osicki
Hi Is there any way to lock an active array? To make clear what I'm after: I have two machines forming a fail-over cluster connected over SAN to two storage boxes which provide them with a disk each. I created a RAID1 using those two disks. Both cluster nodes see both disks but only one

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?

2006-02-09 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

Re: Question: array locking, possible?

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Osicki
to look at LVM2 and its ability to use tagging to control enablement of VGs. This way it is not HW dependent. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Osicki Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:26 AM To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org

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: accessing mirrired lvm on shared storage

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Osicki
Matthias I have currently four clusters which mirror shared storage. I've always pay great attention not to have an array active on both cluster nodes. I can imagine data corruption would happen soon or late. Unfortunately md lacks the ability to mark an array as used/busy/you_name_it. Sometime

Re: accessing mirrired lvm on shared storage

2006-04-12 Thread Chris Osicki
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:09:52 +1000 Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday April 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately md lacks the ability to mark an array as used/busy/you_name_it. Sometime ago I asked on this list for such an enhancement (see thread with subject Question:

Q: Online resizing ext3 FS

2007-09-12 Thread Chris Osicki
Hi I apologize in advance for asking a question not really appropriate for this mailing list, but I couldn't find a better place with lots of people managing lots of disk space. The question: Has anyone of you been using ext2online to resize (large) ext3 filesystems? I have to do it going from