On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 07:37:45PM +0100, Wiktor Wodecki wrote: > Hello, > > I'm curious if lvm1 allows me to access the same volume group from to > different machines (of course not accessing the same lv's in this vg). I > have two machines connected to a storage array, that's why I ask. Is the > filesystem operations on the LV affecting the VG so that this could lead > to inconsistencies? You can access different LVs in the same SAN shared VG presumably you make changes to the VG (eg: create, resize LVs) when it is active (vgchange -ay) on one of them only. After done with the changes, run vgscan and "vgchange -ay" on the other machine. > > -- > Regards, > > Wiktor Wodecki > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- 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://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/