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NAME

       clvmd - cluster LVM daemon

SYNOPSIS

       clvmd [-d [<value>]] [-C] [-h] [-R] [-t <timeout>] [-T <start timeout>]
       [-V]

DESCRIPTION

       clvmd is the daemon that distributes  LVM  metadata  updates  around  a
       cluster.   It must be running on all nodes in the cluster and will give
       an error if a node in the cluster does not have this daemon running.

OPTIONS

       -d [<value>]
              Enable debug logging. Value can be 0, 1 or 2.
              0 disables debug logging in a running clvmd
              1 sends debug logs to stderr (clvmd will not fork in this case)
              2 sends debug logs to syslog
              If -d is specified without a value then 1 is assumed if you  are
              starting  a  new clvmd, 2 if you are enabling debug in a running
              clvmd.

       -C     Only valid if -d is  also  specified.  Tells  all  clvmds  in  a
              cluster  to  enable/disable debug logging.  Without this switch,
              only the local clvmd will change its debug level to  that  given
              with -d.
              This  does  not  work correctly if specified on the command-line
              that starts clvmd.  If  you  want  to  start  clvmd  and  enable
              cluster-wide  logging then the command needs to be issued twice,
              eg:
              clvmd
              clvmd -d2

       -t <timeout>
              Specifies the timeout for commands to run  around  the  cluster.
              This should not be so small that commands with many disk updates
              to do will fail, so you may need to  increase  this  on  systems
              with very large disk farms.  The default is 30 seconds.

       -T <start timeout>
              Specifies  the  timeout  for clvmd daemon startup. If the daemon
              does not report that it has started up within this time then the
              parent  command  will  exit with status of 5. This does NOT mean
              that clvmd has not started! What it means is that the startup of
              clvmd has been delayed for some reason; the most likely cause of
              this is an inquorate cluster though it could be due  to  locking
              latencies on a cluster with large numbers of logical volumes. If
              you get the return code of 5 it  is  usually  not  necessary  to
              restart  clvmd  -  it  will  start  as soon as that blockage has
              cleared. This flag is to allow startup  scripts  to  exit  in  a
              timely fashion even if the cluster is stalled for some reason.
              The default is 0 (no timeout) and the value is in seconds. Don’t
              set this too small or you will experience spurious errors. 10 or
              20 seconds might be sensible.
              This  timeout  will  be  ignored  if you start clvmd with the -d
              switch.

       -R     Tells all the running clvmds in  the  cluster  to  reload  their
              device  cache  and  re-read  the  lvm  configuration  file. This
              command should be run whenever the devices on a  cluster  system
              are changed.

       -I     Selects  the  cluster  manager  to  use for locking and internal
              communications, the available managers will be listed as part of
              the ’clvmd -h’ output.  clvmd will use the first cluster manager
              that   succeeds,   and   it   checks   them   in    the    order
              cman,gulm,corosync,openais. As it is quite possible to have (eg)
              corosync and cman available on the same system you might have to
              manually specify this option to override the search.

       -V     Display the version of the cluster LVM daemon.

SEE ALSO

       lvm(8)