Thanks! The pvcreate man page I have installed now (from LVM2.00.08) doesn't mention this option. I'll move to the cvs version and give it a try. Dave On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:00:05PM -0600, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 09:36:38AM -0800, Dave Olien wrote: > > Having redundant copies of meta data is a good thing. But how about > > allowing the adminstrator to set a limit on the degree of redundancy when > > a VG is created. You could limit a VG to having for example 10 redundant > > copies. Then adding more PVs beyond the 10th would encounter less overhead. > > Am I missing something important? > > There'll be a VG-level option for this eventually; until then, use the > pvcreate options to say how many copies of metadata you want on each PV. > e.g. pvcreate --metadatacopies 0 > [Careful use of the --restorefile option lets you reduce it on a PV already in the VG.] > > For complex VGs you should increase the space set aside for metadata too: > --metadatasize > > See the pvcreate man page. > > Alasdair > -- > agk@redhat.com > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
