[ale] LVM on iscsi for cluster

[greg.freemyer at gmail.com (Greg Freemyer)]

Sounds like you need Cluster enabled LVM. Or CLVM for short.

http://sourceware.org/cluster/clvm/

fyi: I haven't used it, but I do think it is the typical solution to
your problem.

Greg

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Robert Coggins <ale at cogginsnet.com> wrote:
> Good day all,
>
> I am working on creating an HA cluster for mysql. ?Right now I have 2
> nodes pointing to an iscsi target. ?Both nodes see my linux LVM
> partition as /dev/sdb1. ?On node a I did the pvcreate, vgcreate, and
> lvcreate. ?On node a and b I see the pv, vg and lv when doing pvscan,
> vgscan and lvscan or displays. ?However, I can only make the lvm on node
> a active (using vgchange -ay and lvchange -ay). ?however when I try the
> same on node b I get "Command failed with status code 5" and I do this
> when the lvm is unavailable on node a. ?Any ideas?
>
> Robert