Jonathan Brassow wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:01 +0000, Patrick Caulfield wrote: >>Michael Weitzel wrote: >>>I am confused about the usage of clvmd. On a blank 80 GB disk I created >>>pvcreate /dev/hdb >>hdb doesn't sound like a shared disk to me. >>clvmd doesn't magically make IDE drives into shared storage I'm afraid. I see. I suspected this :-/ > ... but gnbd would work. You would have a single point of failure in > that case, but you would be able to access a volume from two machines. Is there a limit on the number of machines a blockdevice can be exported to? I read somewhere on this list that it is possible to use LVM to build volume groups of imported gnbd block devices (probably with mirroring). Can I safely "clone" such a LVM configuration to use it on the different nodes of a cluster? ... I have a bunch of nodes with spare IDE disks ... Thanks & merry X-mas -- Michael Weitzel -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
