Re: Storage mangement advice

>     LV

>           Folder1  <--- allocated as share, cannot be made homes folder

>           Folder2  <--- not allocated as share, can be made homes folder

> a)  You are not using ZFS are you?
> b)  Are you using tracd?
> c)  What memory do you have allocated to openfiler?
> d)  Openfiler with USB devices and various kernel drivers has known issues
> with Volume allocation.
> Solution:  Load the volume group and logical volumes manually... fdisk -l
> shows the partition but lvm vgdisplay says "no volume groups found"
> [root@openfiler ~]# lvm vgdisplay
>  No volume groups found
> [root@openfiler ~]# lvm lvdisplay shows the same message...  So the next
> thing to do is to load the volume group manually.. [root@openfiler ~]# lvm
> vgscan
>  Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
>  Found volume group "rac" using metadata type lvm2
> [root@openfiler ~]# Now that the volume group is loaded, the lvdisplay shows
> the logical volumes but they are in "NOT Available" status
>  [root@openfiler ~]# lvm lvdisplay
>    --- Logical volume ---
>    LV Name                /dev/rac/crs
>    VG Name                rac
>    LV UUID                iKo4Jn-s2sX-pVda-RD8n-JxNr-EbiA-azLPIi
>    LV Write Access        read/write
>    LV Status              NOT available
>    LV Size                50.00 GB
>    Current LE             64
>    Segments               1
>    Allocation             inherit
>    Read ahead sectors     0
>  [root@openfiler ~]# Now change the status of the volume manually
>  [root@openfiler ~]# lvm lvchange -a y /dev/rac/crs
>  [root@openfiler ~]# lvm lvdisplay
>    --- Logical volume ---
>    LV Name                /dev/rac/crs
>    VG Name                rac
>    LV UUID                iKo4Jn-s2sX-pVda-RD8n-JxNr-EbiA-azLPIi
>    LV Write Access        read/write
>    LV Status              available
>    # open                 0
>    LV Size                50.00 GB
>    Current LE             64
>    Segments               1
>    Allocation             inherit
>    Read ahead sectors     0
>    Block device           253:0
>  [root@openfiler ~]# If there are more logical volumes, manually change the
> status for each..