Hello all,
Im new to san (used to nfs).
I have a netapp connected to my linux machine via qlogic fiber channel cards. I intend on getting dm-multipath working. But I have a problem, or maybe I just dont know what to do.
Im trying to figure out how I am going to mount this. Do I just fdisk /dev/sdb && mkfs and just mount /dev/path/to/multipathdisk via "mount /dev/path/to/multipathdisk /new/mountpoint" ???
What happens if the netapp admin grows the lun in size? Wont that screw up that partition? How would I force it to recognize the new size of that lun or disk? Would that screw up my file system?
I was also thinking I could just setup the /dev/path/to/multpathdisk and add it into LVM. And instead of growing the LUN, he would hand me off another lun, and I would add it logically into the volume and grow it that way...
Whats the best practice for this scenario... I prefer the first method due to simplicity, but am worried if we grow the file system it might get F'd up.
What to do
Im new to san (used to nfs).
I have a netapp connected to my linux machine via qlogic fiber channel cards. I intend on getting dm-multipath working. But I have a problem, or maybe I just dont know what to do.
Im trying to figure out how I am going to mount this. Do I just fdisk /dev/sdb && mkfs and just mount /dev/path/to/multipathdisk via "mount /dev/path/to/multipathdisk /new/mountpoint" ???
What happens if the netapp admin grows the lun in size? Wont that screw up that partition? How would I force it to recognize the new size of that lun or disk? Would that screw up my file system?
I was also thinking I could just setup the /dev/path/to/multpathdisk and add it into LVM. And instead of growing the LUN, he would hand me off another lun, and I would add it logically into the volume and grow it that way...
Whats the best practice for this scenario... I prefer the first method due to simplicity, but am worried if we grow the file system it might get F'd up.
What to do
