Replying to my own post, I have found and installed the patches from; http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/dm/ specifically; http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/dm/patches/2.6-unstable/2.6.6-rc2/2.6.6-rc2-udm1. tar.bz2 to a pristine 2.6.6 kernel, configured it appropriately, compiled and booted from it; pvmove still doesn't work. Is there any special magick I need to apply or documentation that I'm missing? Do I need to update my version of pvmove (currently at; pvmove --version LVM version: 2.00.08 (2003-11-14) Library version: 1.00.07-ioctl (2003-11-21) Driver version: 4.0.0) (although that is as booted with the mandrake 2.6.3-13 kernel, not the 2.6.6 + dm patches kernel) Thanks! (and these disks are failing; I need to decommission them ASAP, if I can't pvmove the extents on them or move the files which occupy extents on them, then I am in trouble). > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com > [mailto:linux-lvm-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steve Wray > Sent: Saturday, 12 June 2004 11:34 > To: linux-lvm@redhat.com > Subject: decommision disks in LVM2 & 2.6 kernel? > (pvmove broken) > > > Hi there! > > I have two disks which I need to decommission. > > I'm running mandrake 10 official, LVM2, 2.6.3-13 kernel. > > Naturally, pvmove doesn't work. > > I get "Temporary mirror activation failed"; I googled for that > and it wasn't much helpt. In fact I've spent a good couple of > hours googling for hints on this problem and it hasn't helped. > Maybe my google-fu isn't that hot. > > I only need a kernel which can perform pvmove just the once. > I don't care what other features it has, I just want to boot > into single user, pvmove, pvremove and bring it back up > with my regular, distribution kernel. > > Can anyone please direct me to a 2.6 kernel which supports > pvmove? (or of course, appropriate patches. Oh and I am not > particularly interested in EVMS support, just pvmove :) > > Alternatively, if I could find out which files are on the PV's which > I want to decommision, I could just move the files off and > then pvremove > without having to pvmove, right? Suggestions? > > Thanks! > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
