On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 22:16 -0500, Zac Slade wrote: > On Friday 07 April 2006 07:59, rarulselvan@sify.com wrote: > > I do understand that LVM and EVMS are quite useful for managing the disk > > space in given work station. So I am wondering if there is such thing as > > LVM over IP network ? so that I can maximize my disk usage. If not, what is > > my other choice ? > Why not? Using iSCSI or ATAoE you can export the extra space from each of the > system as devices that will appear to be block devices. From there you can > add them to a vg anytime you want. Just be careful how you do it because if > one of the systems goes off the network you will not have access to the data > from that drive. Also I'm not so sure how well LVM deals with having a drive > dissappear out from underneath it. if one PV lose. u can active a partial VG and do read only LV on good PVs. ps, i do not understand why LV only allow read only access. anybody know why? ming _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
