2012/5/21 Alexander Voropay <[email protected]>:
> How to create a new StorageRepository on the FibreChannel device
> formatted with GPT partitions and with LVM ?
The 'xe sr-create type=ext' creates SR exactly as required:
- creates LVM on the arbitrary partition
- formats this LogicalVolume with ext3fs (type=ext)
- creates SR and PBD for this partition
The logic resides into the
/opt/xensource/sm/EXTSR.py
>>'description': 'SR plugin which represents disks as VHD files stored on a
>>local EXT3 filesystem, created inside an LVM volume',
# ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 May 21 14:54
scsi-3600144f094cdf1c200004fb6438b0001 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 May 21 14:54
scsi-3600144f094cdf1c200004fb6438b0001-part1 -> ../../sdb1
...
# xe host-list
uuid ( RO) : 136dd20c-cf64-4c59-b954-f171c9d4e063
name-label ( RW): xenserver
name-description ( RW): Default install of XenServer
# uuidgen
4afccf70-82f5-4dfe-9576-5ccb2b2ca198
Tada!
# xe sr-create host-uuid=136dd20c-cf64-4c59-b954-f171c9d4e063 type=ext
content-type="user" name-label="FC storage" shared=false
device-config-device=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-3600144f094cdf1c200004fb6438b0001-part1
4afccf70-82f5-4dfe-9576-5ccb2b2ca198
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