Re: [Evms-cluster] Disk ownership issue

[Ram P. <lin...@us...>]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Xiaoxiang Liu wrote:

> I haven't found any flaws yet. But I get two questions.
> 1) What does the well-known place mean? Is there a place already
> reserved and available or EVMS needs to predefine and reserve
> this place itself?

Well known place is not yet defined.  It could be at the beginning of
the disk or at the end of the disk, or at the beginning or end of the
partition.

>
> 2) Who should be in charge of this part of metadata if the disk is shared?
> Actually this question is not only for ownership-metadata but also for all
> EVMS metadata if the disk is in the shared mode.

Nobody is incharge of the ownership-metadata.  It is for advisory
purpose only, and acts as a guide for the cluster nodes to identify the
ownership of the disk.

In general, any EVMS-metadata is advisory in nature.  The system
administrator is responisible for laying down the correct metadata.

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