On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 11:49:11PM +0300, Janne Peltonen wrote: > that's it. They are all probably trying to activate the VG with 47 PV's, > and it seems to take ages. It started an three-quarters of an hour ago, > and now I'm going to sleep (it's midnight here) and see if it'll be up > by tomorrow morning... So I didn't go to sleep. The VG took /one and a half hours/ to activate. And operations such as pvdisplay /dev/sdau1 take ages (minutes and minutes), and the pvdisplay appears to hog cpu. Meanwhile: [jmmpelto@pcn3 ~]$ sudo dd if=/dev/sdau1 of=/tmp/huu bs=1k count=10000 10000+0 records in 10000+0 records out 10240000 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.30667 seconds, 33.4 MB/s Er. --Janne -- Janne Peltonen <janne.peltonen@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster