What's up with "-i 5"? Doesn't that map to striping? you can't stripe across 5 pv's if you only have 2. On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> wrote: > I'm trying to mirror my root fs and get errors that make no sense. What > am I missing? > > PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree > /dev/sda1 vg0 lvm2 a- 111.79G 61.79G > /dev/sdb1 vg0 lvm2 a- 111.79G 111.79G > > lvconvert -m1 -i 5 vg0/root > Insufficient suitable allocatable extents for logical volume : 7680 > more required > Unable to allocate extents for mirror(s). > > Then I tried explicitly telling it to allocate from sdb1: > > lvconvert -m1 -i 5 vg0/root /dev/sdb1 > Not enough PVs with free space available for parallel allocation. > Consider --alloc anywhere if desperate. > Unable to allocate extents for mirror(s). > > There are two PVs so why does it complain? > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > _______________________________________________ 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/
