2008/11/30 Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 04:13:31PM +0100, Fabio Coatti wrote: >> /dev/md1: too many metadata areas for pvresize > > That's meant to be saying you chose to place a second copy of the metadata at > the end of the device and if you want to increase the size of the data area you > have to shift that metadata first and there is no code that does that. > > Workaround is to reduce to 1 metadata area first (backup VG, redo pvcreate with > uuid & restorefile, restore VG), then extend, then put the 2nd metadata area > back (same process) if you still want it. Done that (basically, having several PV and some space, some pvmove and pvcreate solved it). But basically this means that the option to use 2 metadata areas prevents pv to grow, right? Maybe this situation should be reported on documentation: "never use two copies of metadata if it can happen to resize pv" (or can it be considered a bug and solved on code side? basically pvresize should handle the move of the second metadata at the end of the pv after the resize operation...) _______________________________________________ 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/
