Vikas wrote:
Objective: Be able to take snapshots of XEN disk images for backup. Problem: lvcreate is failing The environment: [root@localhost ~]# pvscan PV /dev/md3 VG gt_vg lvm2 [909.91 GB / 909.91 GB free] Total: 1 [909.91 GB] / in use: 1 [909.91 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] [root@localhost ~]# vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "gt_vg" using metadata type lvm2 [root@localhost ~]# vgdisplay gt_vg --- Volume group --- VG Name gt_vg System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 7 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 0 Open LV 0 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 909.91 GB PE Size 32.00 MB Total PE 29117 Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0 Free PE / Size 29117 / 909.91 GB VG UUID j4aEP0-PCwG-Qyub-DCxw-aVVp-VyCK-EkZUsN [root@localhost ~]# lvcreate -L 5G -n data gt_vg Not enough PVs with free space available for parallel allocation. Consider --alloc anywhere if desperate. Any feedback would be very much appreciated, Thanks for your time,
AFAIK this message should be seen only when trying to create a mirrored or striped lv. Post at least the log of -vvv run, so we can guess why this is happening. Posting extended lvm info could be helpful too - try lvmdump. Regards, Jaroslav Stava _______________________________________________ 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/
