Just don't mount it on the passive nodes until required. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 2, 2010, at 4:38, "urgrue" <urgrue@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's a bit overkill in the sense that, as far as I have understood, > HA-LVM and CLVM imply the use of red hat cluster and its associated > components, luci, ricci, rgmanager, dlm, quorum and maybe fence device > configuration, etc. > All I really need is for the active node to mark the VG as "reserved" > one way or another and have other node(s) respect that and thus not > touch it unless forced to. > I would assume (hope) there is some simple solution that I'm just not > thinking of. > > > > On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:09 -0700, "Matt Iavarone" > <matt.iavarone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I haven't used ha-lvm, but it doesn't seem to be overkill for your >> needs. It looks tailored to your needs, in fact. The kb says that >> ha-lvm is for failover volumes, those that will only be mounted on >> one >> host (http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-3068). So you don't need >> to complicate things with a clustered file system. >> >> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:36 AM, urgrue <urgrue@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> I need to set up a simple failover scenario. The idea is to have two >>> independent RHEL 5 systems on local disks, connected to a shared >>> SAN. >>> The application is all on the SAN. Only one node is ever running >>> at a >>> time. If the active node fails, the disk needs to be mounted on the >>> passive node and the application started. >>> Failover doesn't have to be fast or automatic, but it has to be >>> simple >>> and reliable. >>> Depending on where I look, HA-LVM is sometimes recommended and other >>> times it's CLVM. Looking at red hat cluster it seems HA-LVM is a bit >>> overkill for my needs. >>> Any suggestions or other options? >>> >>> -- >>> redhat-list mailing list >>> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx? >>> subject=unsubscribe >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >>> >> >> -- >> redhat-list mailing list >> unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
