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RE: recommend a configuration?: msg#00254

Subject: RE: recommend a configuration?
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 08:18 -0700, Peter Shearer wrote:
> This brings up a question I've been meaning to ask...
> 
> I'm using iet to present LVM2 lv data to both Windows and Linux servers.
> Works great for what I need.  Question is this:  Can you tell iet to
> rescan the sizes of its lu and present any changes to the ini?  It would
> be great if I could resize the lv using LVM2 and then propagate those
> changes to the ini without having to either restart iet or remove /
> create the lun (if it can already do this, then I'm already happy).
we do not have this.

> 
> Of course, the ini would have to support rescanning the target to pick
> up the change.  After that, using a fs which can be resized online (such
> as ext3 and dynamic ntfs disks) will facility the no downtime
> requirement.
o, yes, we discussed this before. linux scsi ml might not support unit
attention.


> 
> As of yet, I haven't personally had the true need for this, but I'm sure
> that will be there in the future.  Maybe an option like ietadm --op
> update --tid=X --lun=Y --rescan....I don't know.  :)
worthy to add.


> 
> --Peter
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: iscsitarget-devel-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:iscsitarget-devel-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> > Behalf Of Ming Zhang
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 7:36 AM
> > To: iet-dev
> > Subject: [Iscsitarget-devel] recommend a configuration?
> > 
> > 
> > I have a friend asked me for this. I wonder if anybody can give me a
> > recommendation? Many of you are admin who are much better than me on
> > this. :) 
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > 
> > > I have a question for you. I want to use iscsi array
> > > to store database data file. I hope I can get some
> > > kind of redundency (RAID) as well as dynamic increase
> > > disk space without shuting down the database to
> > > rebuild the array. The database will have transactions
> > > all the time and can't be shutdown.
> > 
> > 
> > Ming
> > 
> > 
> > 
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