On 23/08/15 02:13 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still doing some tests on SLES 11 SP4 & I was trying to run > "mkfs.ocfs2" against a logical volume (with all infrastructure > ready: cLVM & DLM & o2cb) but it gives me errors while creating it. If > I run it against a raw device (no LVM) it works. > > Then I found this from an Oracle PDF: > > "It is important to note that creating OCFS2 volumes on logical volumes > (LVM) is not supported. This is due to the fact that logical volumes are > not cluster aware and corruption of the OCFS2 file system may occur." > > Can anyone please confirm if indeed OCFS2 won't work on top of LVM as of > today? I found no mention of this in the HAE Guide (strange). > > Thanks! > Jorge
One, this is on-topic, so don't worry. :) Two, I've never used ocfs2 (allergic to all things Oracle), but clvmd makes LVM cluster-aware, as you know. So I have no idea why they'd say that. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? _______________________________________________ Users mailing list: Users@clusterlabs.org http://clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/users Project Home: http://www.clusterlabs.org Getting started: http://www.clusterlabs.org/doc/Cluster_from_Scratch.pdf Bugs: http://bugs.clusterlabs.org