On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:52 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > And if you have problems making space in the metadata to add the PV to it, > a workaround is to temporarily use in-filesystem metadata: > > create a metadata dir in a local filesystem (NOT an LV), and place an up-to-date > backup copy of the metadata there (from vgcfgbackup) > > update lvm.conf to start using this metadata (metadata/dirs) > - use verbose display options to check it's doing this > > pvcreate as in my last message to remove the too-small metadata area > - you're now relying entirely on the in-filesystem metadata > > add the new PVs to the VG as before > > revert the lvm.conf change Will this work with clustered LVM? If so, I take it all nodes will have to be configured to use in-filesystem metadata? Thanks, John. -- http://johnleach.co.uk _______________________________________________ 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/
