On 10/25/2011 02:06 AM, Bob Schatz wrote:
> Andreas,
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> Comments below with [BS]
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Andreas Kurz <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] Basic Question about LVM
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On 10/18/2011 11:59 PM, Bob Schatz wrote:
>> I am trying to setup a LVM fail over cluster and I must be missing something 
>> basic. :(
>>
>> The configuration I want is:
>>
>>      IP address
>>           |
>>      File System
>>           |
>>       LVM
>>
>> I am not using DRBD.
> 
> So you are using a shared storage device like a FC disk?
> 
> [BS] Yes.  We are using shared disk.
> 
>>
>> I am running this on Ubuntu 10.04LS.
>>
>> Everything works fine and I can migrate the group between two nodes.   
>> However, if I reboot one node OR STONITH one node it causes the other node 
>> to stop and then restart all resources.
>>
>> The problem is that when the node reboots, it activates the LVM volume group 
>> and then Pacemaker says "native_add_running: Resource ocf::LVM:volume-lvm-p 
>> appears to be active on 2 nodes."  This causes the group to stop and then be 
>> restarted.
>>
>> I tried to play with /etc/lvm/lvm.conf filtering but that just prevented the 
>> disks from being read even by the agent.
> 
> Adopted volume_list Parameter to not activate all vgs? After doing
> changes to lvm.conf you also need to recreate initramfs.
> 
> Safest and recommended setup is to use clvmd with dlm and update your vg
> to a clustered one (also adopt the locking type in lvm.conf).
> 
> Last step is to integrate dlm/clvmd/lvm in your Pacemaker setup and you
> are ready to go.
> 
> [BS]  Thanks.  I am studying the various docs I have found on setting up 
> clvmd and it looks pretty straightforward.  
>           One question I have is do I need to configure the o2cb resource?  I 
> do not want a shared file system and therefore I am
>   not going to use OCFS2.   It seemed to me that o2cb only makes sense if you 
> have OCFS2.

No need for o2cb if you are not using OCFS2.

Regards,
Andreas

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> 
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas
> 



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