On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 10:30 -0800, Dave Craska wrote: > > I'm trying to set up a clustered mirror file system, running under RH 5.2. > I've been able to run the pvcreate and the vgcreate, but when I try and run the lvcreate I run into some issues: > > [root@rdgasoem1p ~]# lvcreate -L 512MB -m1 --corelog -n cvg00_log cvg00 > Error locking on node rdgasoem1p.am.boehringer.com: device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument > Error locking on node rdgasoem2p.am.boehringer.com: device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument > Error locking on node rdgasoem1p.am.boehringer.com: device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument > Aborting. Failed to activate new LV to wipe the start of it. That cryptic error message in this context means that the dm-cmirror kernel module isn't available on those node. dm-cmirror isn't available in RHEL 5.2. It's available in RHEL 4 iirc, and it's in RH 5.3 now: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2009-0158.html John. -- Serious Rails Hosting: http://www.brightbox.co.uk -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
