Fajar, Thanks for you, quite clear. Michael On 8/26/05, Fajar A. Nugraha <fajar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Michael wrote: > > >Can anyone answer my question? > > > > > > > I don't think LVM cares what kind of storage it uses, as long as it's a > block device. > So theoretically, you can mix local disc, FC storage, GNBD, and ATOE and > combine them using LVM. You might run into performance issues (GNBD are > slower than FC disks) and startup issues (LVM has to start after cluster > and gnbd-import successfuly start), but it should be possible. > > The real question is WHY you want to do that. > AFAIK, if you combine 5 gnbd from 5 gnbd servers into one LVM, and you > are accessing a volume on that volume group, and one of the gnbd server > dies (or hangs), gnbd import will wait forever until that server is back > up. So you'll have five more single-point-of-failures. > > Regards, > > Fajar > > >On 8/26/05, Michael <mikore.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>If I have 5 gnbd servers in the network, each one export 1 block > >>device, can I import all gnbd devices on each gfs client, and use lvm > >>to manage them as 1 shared pool, then mkfs_gfs on it? > >> > >>Thanks, > >> > >>Michael > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
