C.3. Controlling Activation with Tags
You can specify in the configuration file that only certain logical volumes should be activated on that host. For example, the following entry acts as a filter for activation requests (such as vgchange -ay
) and only activates vg1/lvol0
and any logical volumes or volume groups with the database
tag in the metadata on that host.
There is a special match "@*" that causes a match only if any metadata tag matches any host tag on that machine.
As another example, consider a situation where every machine in the cluster has the following entry in the configuration file:
This solution involves storing hostnames inside the volume group metadata.