On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 09:54:06AM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > > There is a clustered vg in my five-node cluster (four of which have > > access to the SAN where the physical devices reside). It seems to me > > that the more LV's and PV's I've got, the more time it takes to get the > > VG activated. When I had 8 PV's and 79 LV's, it took some ten minutes to > > activate the VG on each node. Now, I extended the VG by 39 PV's (so that my > > Did you put a metadata copy on each PV? Check with vgdisplay: [..] > If that's the case, you probably don't want one for each PV here. It's > unnecessary and will slow the tools down a lot when there are a large > number of PVs. > > Check out the --metadatacopies option to pvcreate and re-create the > volume group with a much smaller number of MDAs if this is the problem > you're seeing. If you're careful you can do this in-place via the > - --restorefile option to pvcreate and vgcfgbackup/vgcfgrestore. THANK you. And here I was thinking I knew the lvm tools completely... Apparantly one'd have to read the man pages of even everyday tools now and then. ;) --Janne -- Janne Peltonen <janne.peltonen@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
