Re: Please name new maintainers

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 07:49 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:

> > Plus, we used the evms disk spanning (or whatever it's called) to make
> > all the LUNs on the SAN appear as one device.
> 
> Drive link. Bad idea. You could have simply added them to a existing VG 
> later.

Now you tell me ;)

> So, if I got it right, you used the drivelink feature to create one big 
> device, and then put logical volumes on top of that? In this case, yes, you 
> would have to backup and start from scratch.

Yup. That is what I thought.

> But, I think I wrote it in an earlier thread: The fact that EVMS is 
> currently unmaintained doesn't mean it stops working. So as long as it 
> works fine for you the way it's setup now, there is no reason for you to 
> switch.

EVMS does not work reliably the way it is now.

We have a 4 node cluster sharing the SAN using EVMS and OCFS2 all this
powered by heartbeat. At the moment only one node can start EVMS at a
time. The rest do not display the devices in /dev/evms and therefore can
not mount the drives or participate in the cluster.

evms has been a headache from the start and we deeply regret using it (I
blame Novell who recommended it in a whitepaper). Even if it was being
maintained I'd urge others to steer clear of it.

John



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