On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 03:13:39PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote: > Hi David, Zdenek, > > Comparing to stable-2.02 branch, I noticed that there are significant > changes around locking infrastructure on master branch. I have a > couple of questions regarding to these changes. > > 1. I see External Locking support was removed as part of clvmd > removal. What's the reason for dropping External Locking support? I'm > asking because we are investigating the possibility to use hardware > assisted locking for cluster, in form of External Locking extension. You could create other multi-host locking mechanisms in lvmlockd. There are currently two, see lvmlockd-dlm.c and lvmlockd-sanlock.c. Dave _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
