On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 02:24:03AM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 10:21:23PM +0100, Philipp Schmidt wrote: > > Is there a way to limit the bandwidth usage of pvmove, like it is > > possible when reconstructing software raid mirris sets? > > I wish there was! This problem annoys me too but nobody's been bothered > enough about it to come up with a workaround yet... really ugly workaround: do it chunk-by-chunk... for i in `seq 0 10 10000`; do pvmove overloaded01:$i-$[i+99] newarray:$i-$[i+99] sleep 5 done or something like that... you have to adjust offsets as needed. you may want to restrict to a particular lv (-n yourlv). you can find out the PE mapping of your lvs with pvs -o name,pvseg_start,pvseg_size,vg_name,lv_name append /dev/pvname to restrict output on one pv hth, -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. _______________________________________________ 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/
