----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lars Ellenberg" <[email protected]>
> To: "Brassow Jonathan" <[email protected]>
> Cc: "General Linux-HA mailing list" <[email protected]>, "Lars 
> Marowsky-Bree" <[email protected]>, "Fabio M. Di
> Nitto" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 3:50:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] LVM Resource agent, "exclusive" activation
> 
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 02:00:48PM -0500, Brassow Jonathan wrote:
> > 
> > On May 17, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:42:30AM -0400, David Vossel wrote:
> > > 
> > >>>>>>> The use of 'auto_activation_volume_list' depends on updates to the
> > >>>>>>> LVM
> > >>>>>>> initscripts - ensuring that they use '-aay' in order to activate
> > >>>>>>> logical
> > >>>>>>> volumes.  That has been checked in upstream.  I'm sure it will go
> > >>>>>>> into
> > >>>>>>> RHEL7 and I think (but would need to check on) RHEL6.
> > > 
> > > Only that this is upstream here, so it better work with
> > > debian oldstale, gentoo or archlinux as well ;-)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Would this be good enough:
> > > 
> > > vgchange --addtag pacemaker $VG
> > > and NOT mention the "pacemaker" tag anywhere in lvm.conf ...
> > > then, in the agent start action,
> > > vgchange -ay --config "tags { pacemaker {} }" $VG
> > > 
> > > (or have the to be used tag as an additional parameter)
> > > 
> > > No retagging necessary.
> > > 
> > > How far back do the lvm tools understand the "--config ..." option?
> > 
> > --config option goes back years and years - not sure of the exact date, but
> > could probably tell with 'git bisect' if you wanted me to.
> > 
> > The above would not quite be sufficient.
> > You would still have to change the 'volume_list' field in lvm.conf (and
> > update the initrd).
> 
> You have to do that anyways if you want to make use of tags in this way?
> 
> > What you are proposing would simplify things in that you would not
> > need different 'volume_list's on each machine - you could copy configs
> > between machines.
> 
> I thought volume_list = [ ... , "@*" ] in lvm.conf,
> assuming that works on all "relevant" distributions as well,
> and a command line "--config" tag would also propagate into that @*.
> It did so for me.
> 
> But yes, vlumen_list = [ ... , "pacemaker" ] would be fine as well.

wait, did we just go around in a circle.  If we add "pacemaker" to the volume 
list, and use that in every cluster node's config, then we've by-passed the 
exclusive activation part have we not?!

Also, we're not happy with the auto_activate list because it won't work with 
old distros?!  It's a new feature, why do we have to work with old distros that 
don't support it?

-- Vossel

> 
>       Lars
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