[Ocfs2-users] Any alternative to LVM?

[João Peixoto]

I did read about evms and like you said, it appears that it causes a
lot of problems.
I a production environment that is not a desirable trait :)
And as far as I've read, the EVMS community is "declining", which is even worst.

I searched clvm for sles 10 sp3 and i did find a package, not entirely
sure its supported though

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Angelo McComis <angelo at mccomis.com> wrote:
> Hello João:
>
> 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, "João 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
>> João Peixoto
>>
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