On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 06:19:13AM -0800, Prashant Kharche wrote: > Hi! > I want to test LVM on a SAN.. But i dont have a > SAN.. SO im trying to use Network Block Device - > 2.4.26 to export partitions to other client > machines.. if im wrong please correct me.. But when i > mount the partitions on the client machine.. With mountinge you mean NBD client accessability? > LVM > version 1.0.2 is not able to recognize the VG already > present on that partition.. what should i do now.. Did you run pvcreate on the NBDs? Did you vgcreate a volume group using them? > > Or is there any other way to emulate a SAN.. It doesn't make a SAN to use NBD to access remote block devices on another machine. You need multiple of those to 'fake' one (IOW: no specific SAN hardware) plus SAN software like a shared disk filesystem (for eg. GFS) to really get use out of it. In order to have a real one you need SAN hardware such us fibre-channel hubs and the like. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
