Does anybody have any suggestions on what I can use to coalesce partitions together from 3 PC's? I didn't have much luck over the weekend on my tests. Testing Summary on 3 PCs with 2 2TB real partitions each: local 2TB + LVM(2 devices) : OK GNBD 2TB(4 imports 2 PCs) + LVM(6 devices) : FAIL(mkfs xfs) GNBD 2TB(2 imports 2 PCs) + LVM(2 devices) : FAIL(dd ok, mkfs xfs fails) GNBD 2TB(2 imports 2 PCs) + MD(2 devices) : FAIL(dd ok, mkfs xfs fails) GNBD 2TB(2 imports same PC) + LVM(2 devices) : FAIL(mkfs xfs) GNBD 2TB(2 imports same PC) + MD(2 devices) : FAIL(dd 100000 ct ok, mkfs xfs fails, mkfs ext3 fails) GNBD 4TB(1 import linear array) + LVM(1 device) : FAIL(mkfs xfs) GNBD 4TB(1 import linear array) : FAIL(dd 5000 ct ok, mkfs xfs fails) GNBD 2TB(1 import) + LVM(1 device) : OK(dd,mkfs xfs on LVM device) GNBD 2TB(1 import) : OK(dd,mkfs xfs on gnbd device) Testing Summary on 1 PC with 2 2TB partitions and 1 PC with 4 .37GB partitions: local 2TB + LVM(2 devices) : OK GNBD .37GB(4 imports 2 PCs) + LVM(6 devices) : not tested GNBD .37GB(2 imports same PC) + LVM(2 devices) : FAIL(dd ok, mkfs xfs fails, mkfs xfs waiting for fsync(), mkfs reiserfs ok, mount reiserfs fails) GNBD .37GB(2 imports same PC) + MD(2 devices) : OK(dd,mkfs xfs on MD device, mkfs reiserfs ok, mount reiserfs fails) GNBD .74GB(1 import linear array) + LVM(1 device): FAIL(mkfs xfs fails, dd ok) GNBD .74GB(1 import linear array) : OK(dd,mkfs xfs on gnbd device) GNBD .37GB(1 import) + LVM(1 device) : OK(dd,mkfs xfs on LVM device) GNBD .37GB(1 import) : OK(dd,mkfs xfs on gnbd device) --- On Sat 02/25, binky123@excite.com < binky123@excite.com > wrote: From: binky123@excite.com [mailto: binky123@excite.com] To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:01:35 -0500 (EST) Subject: LVM2 + Pair GNBD on FC4 <br>On a standard FC4 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4smp build, I'm trying to get<br>LVM2(lvm2-2.01.08-2.1) to work on a pair of gnbd(gnbd-1.0.2) imported devices. I'm able to create a volume group and logical volume<br>from one gnbd device and I'm able to create an XFS filesystem on it.<br>I then extend the volume group with another gnbd device and recreate the logical volume to use the full # of extents. This works. I now<br>try to create an XFS or an EXT3 filesystem on top of the logical<br>volume and the mkfs process seems to go into a disk wait mode. ssh access to the machine is still ok, any LVM2 command will hang, sync command will hang.<br><br>Any suggestions on what is happening, debug suggestions or if anyone else has done something similar to this? Thanks.<br><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com<br>The most personalized portal on the Web!<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>linux-lv! m mailing list<br>linux-lvm@redhat.com<br>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm<br>read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/<br> _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ 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/