Christopher Smith wrote: > I want to use pvmove to move some LVs in a clustered VG off some > specific PVs so those PVs can be removed. > > The LVs are used for Xen VMs, running in a cluster of 4 Xen hosts. The > PVs are LUNs on a fibre channel attached SAN. > > I have constructed a test environment to try out the basic theory before > moving onto more specific testing on SAN-attached hosts, however, it > seems that LVs cannot be moved unless they are deactived: For pvmove of active clustered volumes you need cmirror (clustered mirror target kernel module + userspace) (which is not available in 5.2 release, should be in 5.3) You can use pvmove on exclusively activated volume (on one node) only. > I also found another reply to the earlier thread, that only went to > linux-cluster: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-cluster@redhat.com/msg04365.html > > pvmove Error locking on node clustertest01.syd.nighthawkrad.net: > device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument > pvmove Unable to reactivate logical volume "pvmove0" > pvmove ABORTING: Segment progression failed. hmmm. Can you report it to the bugzilla and attach output from lvmdump? (to Red Hat Bugzilla, not CentOS) Milan -- mbroz@redhat.com _______________________________________________ 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/
