On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 02:07:46PM +0200, Ragnar Kjxrstad wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 03:51:24PM +0200, Stonki wrote: > > Hello list, Hello Heinz, > > > > on Tuesday you explained me the function of moving data from one > > hard disc to another. > > Well, regarding to Murphies Law... pvmove complains about read errors > > and stops before moving all data. > > > > Error reading input physical volume /dev/hdf1 still 393216 bytes to > > read). > > If you browse the archive for the last month you will find a couple of > threads on the subject. > > I've posted a cruel patch to make pvmove ignore read-errors, and update > the meta-data even if the sector is bad. (The extent will be moved to > the other disk, but contain garbage). With this patch the behaviour is > undefined when moving more than one PE. Other than that, I think it > should work. > > Others posted suggestions and possible some patches too - allthough > there was no complete perfect solution, I think you should be able to > make it work from the different tips submitted in the thread. The first thing I would try is shrinking the filesystem and pv by one extent. If this works the pv move should now work ok. - Joe
