Rafael,
Appreciate the link to - Brem's script. - I had actually found that
previously - and I think the piece of the puzzle I'm missing to make
that useful - is figuring out how to disable either the auto-load of
"qla2xxx" (my fiber card HBA) and/or disable the auto-find and
reassemble on boot of all - mdadm volumes... or as Leo said - allow it
all to start, but put in a S00 - mdadm stop script (which seems a bit
too much like a hack for my tastes).
As for the CLVM w/mirrors... just reading through the technical docs -
made me worry... your results are about on par with what I was
thinking... which is I - would like to - wait a few more releases before
I play with that in a Production mode.
-Michael
Rafael Micó Miranda wrote, On 3/11/2010 3:13 PM:
Hi Michael
El mié, 03-03-2010 a las 11:16 -0800, Michael @ Professional Edge LLC
escribió:
Hail Linux Cluster gurus,
[...]
From what I can find messing with Luci (Conga) though... is - I don't
see any resource scripts listed for - "mdadm" (on RHEL 5.4) - so would
my idea even work (I have found some posts asking for a mdadm resource
script but I've seen no response)? I also see with RHEL 5.3 LVM has
mirrors that can be clustered now - is this the right answer? I've done
a ton of reading but everything I've dug up so far; assumes that the
fiber devices are being presented by a SAN that is doing the redundancy
before the RHEL box sees the disk... or... there are a ton of examples
of where fiber is not in the picture and there are a bunch of locally
attached hosts presenting storage onto the TCP (ethernet) - but I've not
found nearly anything on my situation...
You can find an unofficial MDADM rgmanager resource script at this topic:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-cluster/2009-August/msg00111.html
The resource was developed by Brem Belguebli, maybe if he sees this
topic he could give you more detail of the capabilities of the
resource script and it's compatibility with LVM / CLVM on top of it.
In the other hand, you can use directly mirrored LVM volumes with
CLVM. I made some testing with the behaviours of mirrored LVM and I
found some strange stuff when only one node fails its connection to
the device - in your situation it will happen when one of the nodes
fails one of the links with one of the shelves. The fact was the
device being marked as "unknown device" in the node with the failed
path, and in the other everything seemed ok. What can happen during
the "reconstruction" of the failed volume can be unpredictable. Note
the "99.6" in the Copy% column, it always had the same value while the
path was failed:
NODE A
lvs -a -o +vg_name,device
LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move
Log Copy% Convert VG Devices
logvolquorum volgrp01 mwi-ao 996,00M
logvolquorum_mlog 100,00 volgrp01
logvolquorum_mimage_0(0),logvolquorum_mimage_1(0)
[logvolquorum_mimage_0] volgrp01 iwi-ao
996,00M volgrp01
/dev/mpath/quorum01(0)
[logvolquorum_mimage_1] volgrp01 iwi-ao
996,00M volgrp01
/dev/mpath/quorum02(0)
[logvolquorum_mlog] volgrp01 lwi-ao
4,00M volgrp01
/dev/mpath/logquorum01(0)
NODE B (failed path)
lvs -a -o +vg_name,device
LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move
Log Copy% Convert VG Devices
logvolquorum volgrp01 mwi-ao 996,00M
logvolquorum_mlog 99,60 volgrp01
logvolquorum_mimage_0(0),logvolquorum_mimage_1(0)
[logvolquorum_mimage_0] volgrp01 Iwi-ao
996,00M volgrp01
/dev/mpath/quorum01(0)
[logvolquorum_mimage_1] volgrp01 Iwi-ao
996,00M volgrp01
unknown device(0)
[logvolquorum_mlog] volgrp01 lwi-ao
4,00M volgrp01
/dev/mpath/logquorum01(0)
I hope this brings some light to your questions.
Cheers,
Rafael
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