[Linux-HA] HA EVMS start at boot

[Robert Wipfel]

>>> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:21 PM, in message
<1169752904.5049.9.camel at ibmlaptop.darkcore.net>, John Lange
<john.lange at open-it.ca> wrote: 
> On Wed, 2007- 01- 24 at 14:32 - 0700, Robert Wipfel wrote: 
>> >>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at  2:21 PM, in message
>> <904050d50701241321n7d41494ag8786077c67a22f92 at mail.gmail.com>, "Andreas Kurz"
>> <andreas.kurz at gmail.com> wrote: 

[....]

>> EvmsSCC is needed for making Shared (public) Cluster Containers (SCC)
>> visible, as a dependency for hosting an OCFS2 cluster file systems
>> over shared cluster segments, since EVMS' Cluster Segment Manager
>> (CSM)  won't allow them to be activated until the node has joined the
>> cluster. If you have logical volumes on local (or shared) disks,
>> partitioned using GUID or DOS segment managers, then iirc boot.evms
>> (which also calls evms_activate) should scan them in during boot (if
>> chkconfig'd on). Changju will know for sure...
> 
> Ok, I could not get it to work. First challenge was that 2.0.7 is what
> ships with SLES 10 so the resource script didn't exist. I installed
> 2.0.8 from source by just running "./ConfigureMe install" over top the
> existing install. That seems to have worked as the EvmsSCC resource is
> now available in the GUI.

> Are there some parameters that need to be added to the resource or what
> might the problem be?

I'm told you need to set (notify=true). Maybe you could post your CIB
and we can take a look. 

> Does anyone know where a more recent release of the Novell "Conquering
> the High Availability Storage Foundation" document (found here:
> http://wiki.novell.com/index.php/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server ) might be
> obtained? It describes the exact situation we are trying to configure
> but unfortunately ends before the parts we are missing.

There will be updates coming soon. Sorry there's not more there now...

Hth,
Robert