Hello, I just tried to move some volume group of mine from one harddisk to another, using pvmove, just like I did before when using LVM1, only to discover that pvmove is actually not supported. The very big problem I have with this is that pvmove did not tell me *ANYTHING* at all about it not being supported. It happily started creating a snapshot on the first lv in the vg (being my /home partition of all things), spewed a boatload of errors about ioctl cmd 9 not being supported and b0rked out leaving the complete volume group inaccessible. After a hard reset the volume group did not even mount, and the vg appeared to be somewhat borked as well. Luckily, I was able to recover all the data on the volume group. But, what bugs me very much after this episode: I discovered posts on a mailing list dated as far back as 11/02 stating that pvmove was 'not yet implemented' in LVM2. But, why is there not a *SINGLE* warning included in the pvmove tool about this?? Especially as I do not seem to be the first one who got caught with this! It seems to me that, at the very least, a warning should be included. An even better solution would be to just not enable and/or install pvmove by default, because it isn't even supported. Kind regards, Michel Wilson. (please cc any replies directly to me, as I'm not subscribed to the list) -- Michel Wilson michel@crondor.net PGP key ID 0xD2CB4B7E
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