-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Timms wrote: > James Parsons wrote: >> Hi - I'm the s-c-lvm guy; this will take a bit to digest. Just wanted >> to let you know you were heard. >> Yes, 3 minutes to scan for state seems a bit abnormal :) > Actually, its more like 5-6 minutes (I get bored waiting and start doing > other stuff). During boot up it takes about 8 seconds to activate the > lvm volumes. Nothing to do with the s-c-lvm problem, but these times sound perfectly normal if you have a metadata area on each of the 25 PVs in the volume group. By default, pvcreate will set each PV up with a single metadata area (MDA). This is fine for small volume groups but will kill tool performance for volume groups with large numbers of PVs since the runtime grows as something like N^3 in the number of metadata areas. Note that it's only tool performance that suffers - I/O performance is not affected. You can prevent this by creating most of the PVs in such a VG with the option "--metadatacopies=0" on the pvcreate command line. Create a small number with either "--metadatacopies=1" (or just use the default - it's 1 anyway) and you should find the time to scan/activate the VG is much shorter. It's possible to fix this in-place without destroying the VG but you need to be a little careful; it'd be wise to back up anything important first in case things don't work out. First, deactivate all volumes in the group and backup the metadata: # vgchange -an <VolGroup> # vgcfgbackup <VolGroup> Now recreate all the PVs except those that you want to contain metadata with their original UUIDs and the --restorefile and --metadatacopies=0 flags: # pvcreate --uuid=$UUID --restorefile=/etc/lvm/backup/<VolGroup> - --metadatacopies=0 /dev/$DEVICE Next create the metadata-holding PVs: # pvcreate --uuid=$UUID --restorefile=/etc/lvm/backup/<VolGroup> - --metadatacopies=1 /dev/$DEVICE And finally restore the metadata: # vgcfgrestore <VolGroup> The last time I had to do this was on a VG with 100 PVs, I used a script that parsed the output of pvs to automate all this stuff. Drop me a line off-list if you're interested & I'll see if I can pull it up. Kind regards, Bryn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGn2xB6YSQoMYUY94RAh3tAJ905BwCeRUNVYu0xWW5DWYpB+ZZGQCcC63Q NmZcYlIAlcC3wRRdRNDUuoc= =oqzc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
