[Lustre-discuss] create LVM volume for OSSs

[Shuichi Ihara]

Please use mdadm(8) to build RAID5 MD device.

Thanks
-Ihara

sd a wrote:
> Thanks for your reply,
> 
> I want to setup file striping mechanism such as RAID 5 for OSS to 
> protect data loss
> 
> How to do this?
> 
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Shuichi Ihara <ihara at sun.com 
> <mailto:ihara at sun.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Yes, lmc is configurator that is part of lustre-1.4 and as you
>     mentioned we use
>     "lustre.mount" instead of these lustre-1.4 utilities in the
>     lustre-1.6.x later.
>     But, your question was about the LVM. This is not part of lustre. If
>     you want to
>     know about LVM more detail, below RHEL administration manual would
>     be useful.
> 
>     http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Cluster_Logical_Volume_Manager/index.html
> 
>     Thanks
>     -Ihara
> 
>     sd a wrote:
> 
>         Hi all,
> 
>         I've read Lustre Quick Start
>         (http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Lustre_Quick_Start)  and
>         Lustre Operation manual.
> 
>         As far as I know, the lmc command is removed in Lustre 1.6.5
>         (?). So, I had many confusions about creating LVM volume for OSTs
> 
>         Can anybody describe clearly how to create LVM and/or RAID for
>         OSTs ?
> 
>         Thanks a lot
> 
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