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I have two questions regarding the sharing of
LVM volumes in Linux. I have read the text in the LVM Howto.
Suppose I have two sets of volume groups. One
set belongs to node A. The other set belongs to node B. I plan to
use "vgchange -ay vgname" to bring up the volume groups during boot. Each
node only brings up the volume groups that belong to it. That is why I
specify the volume-group name to vgchange.
My questions concern vgscan.
1. Suppose I only plan to run vgscan during
boot. Later, if I make changes to the LVM metadata for volume groups that
belong to node A, I do not plan to inform node B (I do not run vgscan on node B
after the changes are made). So, node B will not have uptodate information
on the volume groups that belong to node A, but those groups are not available
to node B anyway (they have never been made available to node B by running
vgchange on node B). In this way, I do not need to shutdown node B for
changes that only affect node A. Will this
work?
2. Suppose I do run vgscan on node B after
changes to the LVM metdata are made on node A. Can I do this without
following the sequence in the LVM Howto (first issue "vgchange -an" on node B,
then make the changes on node A, then run vgscan on node B)? I am hoping
that I do not need to issue "vgchange -an" on node B because I am not
making changes to volume groups that are available to node B.
Best regards,
John S. Hoch
Rasilient Systems
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