Hello Jo?o:
I'm a fellow sles10-3 user. In sles you have to use evms. Under
sles11, there is clvm. But clvm is not on sles10.
Evms is a pain in my opinion. I have tons of problems with it after
reboots where my /dev/evms/<block dev> devices disapear. Your results
may vary. Good luck though.
- Angelo
{via mobile device}
On May 13, 2010, at 7:33 AM, "Jo?o Peixoto" <joao.hartimer at
gmail.com>
wrote:
> I've seen documentation already regarding both distributed filesystems
> and OCFS2 in particular.
> I found that LVM is not supported, or better yet, not certified by
> OCFS2.
>
> Since in my use case scenario I'm using a SAN storage, LVM seems the
> easiest choice to allow a graceful growth of a certain mount point,
> for instance, by adding a LUN to the volume group, etc.
>
> Also, in my use case, the operating system in use is SLES 10 SP3,
> which does not have officially the CLVM alternative (as far as i know
> shipped with SLES 11 only).
> Is there a way to have an OCFS2 file system that can gracefully grow
> using LUNs in the same/similar way that LVM allows?
>
> Best regards
> Jo?o Peixoto
>
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