No it is not shared via NFS (do we have to first share it?) Problem is, there is no free slot for disks in our machine (say N1). However another node (say N2 which is running scientific linux independently) has free slots. So I added the physical disks to N2. the disk has been formatted and it has a mount point on N2.
Now I want to add N2:/dev/sdb to N1:/dev/tigerfiler1/tigervolume Can you please guide step by step? Regards, Mahmood On Wednesday, May 7, 2014 10:00 AM, John Lauro <john.la...@covenanteyes.com> wrote: What type of remote disk? NFS? A more common case would be to move some directories to /arch and use sym links. You could create a loopback diskfile somewhere on /arch and add that to LVM. It's going to make bootup messy, so you wouldn't want any volumes on it that are required for bootup (especially / or /usr or /sbin, and probably not /var) ... ________________________________ From: "Mahmood Naderan" <nt_mahm...@yahoo.com> >To: scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov >Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 1:12:41 AM >Subject: Add a remote disk to LVM > > > > > >Hello, >Is it possible to add a network drive to existing LVM? I have created a group and have added three local drives. Now I want to add a remote disk from another node. The remote node has an additional hard drive and is mounted to /arch (remote node) > >Is that possible? How? All examples I see are trying to add extra local drives >and not remote drives. > >Here are some info > ># vgdisplay > --- Volume group --- > VG Name tigerfiler1 > System ID > Format lvm2 > Metadata Areas 3 > Metadata Sequence No 2 > VG Access read/write > VG Status resizable > MAX LV 0 > Cur LV 1 > Open LV 1 > Max PV 0 > Cur PV 3 > Act PV 3 > VG Size 2.73 TiB > PE Size 4.00 MiB > Total PE 715401 > Alloc PE / Size 715401 / 2.73 TiB > Free PE / Size 0 / 0 > VG UUID 8Ef8Vj-bDc7-H4ia-D3X4-cDpY-kE9Z-njc8lj > > > >pvdisplay > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/sdb > VG Name tigerfiler1 > PV Size 931.51 GiB / not usable 1.71 MiB > Allocatable yes (but full) > PE Size 4.00 MiB > Total PE 238467 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 238467 > PV UUID FmC77z-9UaR-FhYa-ONHZ-EazF-5Hm2-8zmUuj > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/sdc > VG Name tigerfiler1 > PV Size 931.51 GiB / not usable 1.71 MiB > Allocatable yes (but full) > PE Size 4.00 MiB > Total PE 238467 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 238467 > PV UUID 1jBQUn-gkkD-37I3-R3nL-KeHA-Hn2A-4zgNcR > > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/sdd > VG Name tigerfiler1 > PV Size 931.51 GiB / not usable 1.71 MiB > Allocatable yes (but full) > PE Size 4.00 MiB > Total PE 238467 > Free PE 0 > Allocated PE 238467 > PV UUID mxi8jW-O868-iPse-IfY7-ag3m-R3vZ-gS3Jdx > > > > > > >Regards, >Mahmood