Re: [Evms-cluster] Problem deporting private storage region

[Steve D. <st...@us...>]

"Townsend, Ceri" <Cer...@vn...> wrote on 06/02/2005 08:41:53
AM:

> Hi,
>
> I have a private storage region on a disk array that is shared between 2
> machines in a cluster.
> In this region I have one volume that is mirrored between 2 disks in the
> container.
>
> When the machine tries to failover (via linux-ha using the evms_failover
> script) it fails with device or resource unavailable.
>
> I tried running the "Modify:dg1, Type=deported" via the evms command
> line
>
> >evms -d debug
>
> EVMS Command Line Interpreter Version 2.5.2
>
> EVMS: Modify:dg1, Type=deported
> Device or resource busy
> EVMS: quit
>
> I have the engine log if anyone wants it.  (Not sure if I can post
> attachments here)
>
> Could anyone point me in the right direction.

Hi, Ceri.

Is the volume mounted?  It is typical for EVMS to return EBUSY for
operations on a volume that can't be done because the volume is mounted.
the volume should be unmounted in order to safely shut it down and move it
to the other node.

Steve D.