Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:55:53 +0200
From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Running LVM on shared lun's
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On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:23:04AM -0700, David Chan wrote:
> 
>Don't think LVM is cluster aware.  Doing so can potentially cause loss
>of LV's/data due to metadata corruption on the LVM level.  
LVM2 supports cluster locking, either using internal locking which works
with CMAN or GULM, or by using an external locking library that can be
customized to work with every cluster software that supports locking of
resources.

L.

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