Captain Hindsight here with more advice! :-)
On Mon, 17 May 2010, Malahal Naineni wrote:
> Q: /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.
Having 1 metadata erase per PV generally provides sufficient redundancy
under the assumption that PVs are atomic - you lose an entire PV, or
you don't lose it at all. A 2nd metadata area is only useful when trying
to recover data from a partially destroyed PV - and it is the only PV
in the VG.
A better solution to that scenario is to regularly backup /etc/lvm (or whatever
dir your distro puts metadata backups in) to someplace outside the single PV
VG. For instance, I favor keeping an /etc/lvm backup on /boot (which is of
necessity a non-LVM filesystem until grub has robust LVM support). I've
thought about making /etc/lvm a symlink to /boot/lvm, but haven't studied the
idea for unintended consequences.
If you have regular system backups, then you can get a copy of /etc/lvm from
one of those, and won't need the 2nd metadata area.
Conclusion: always use only one metadata area per PV (but on multiple PVs
when available).
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
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