How to Grow GFS/GFS2 File System and the Underlying Storage

Issue

When attempting to grow the size of a clustered file system, specifically the GFS and GFS2 file systems, and it's underlying storage. One or multiple of the following occurs:

• The lvmeta data (LVM meta data) is not being written successfully to the Logical Volume (lv)
• The GFS/GFS2 file system becomes corrupt
  • typically discoverd either immediately or after a reboot a node or following a umount <fs>; mount <fs> operation
• The GFS/GFS2 file system is not able to be mounted following a reboot or umount <fs>; mount <fs> operation, after an online filesystem resize was performed
• After growing GFS2 file system, the fatal: invalid metadata block error was logged