I have used multiple >2T physical volumes in my large cluster. Do you have clvmd running and does your LVM have the cluster flag turned on?
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Paras pradhan <pradhanpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does it mean that I don't need mpath0p1 ? If its the case i don't need to > run kpartx on mpath0? > And not having mpath0p1 will take away this device mapper ioctl failed issue > when creating lvcreate? > I am really confused why this lock has failed , also not sure if this is > related to this >2TB LUN. > Paras. > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Keith Schincke <keith.schin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Your physical volume can be a whole disk (mpath0) or a partition >> (mpath0p1). I use the partition schema as blank disks could be accidentally >> used by a follow on admin who does not fully understand the system >> configuration. >> Keith >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> On Aug 12, 2011, at 10:14, Paras pradhan <pradhanpa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Alan Brown <a...@mssl.ucl.ac.uk> wrote: >>> >>> Paras pradhan wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have a 2199GB LUN assigned to my 3 node cluster. Since its >2TB, I >>>> used >>>> parted to create the EFI GPT parittion. After that pvcreate and vgcreate >>>> were successfull but I get the following error when doing lvcreate. >>>> >>> >>> If the entire LUN is a PV then you don't need to partition it. >> >> You mean don't use parted or any and directly proceed to pvcreate? >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Linux-cluster mailing list >>> Linux-cluster@redhat.com >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster >> >> -- >> Linux-cluster mailing list >> Linux-cluster@redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster >> >> -- >> Linux-cluster mailing list >> Linux-cluster@redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
