On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:02:36 -0600, Ray Morris wrote: > If you have two redundant PVs or free space, one could move LVs in > order to empty an older PV, then recreate it with larger metadata. > pvmove can be used to move active LVs, or dd is much faster for inactive > ones. I don't have much free space on the storage device. To get this would take a fair bit of time in that I'd need to add new drives and incorporate them into the RAID set. But I do have *some* space thanks to "rounding errors" (or "fudge factor"). It's not enough to move much data around, but I could build a couple of small PVs for use primarily as metadata repositories. Does this make sense? In the long term, as I do add new disks, I can create new "real" PVs with the larger metadata segments, increasing the redundancy. Ultimately, I can get ahead of the game and start pvmove-ing segments off the PVs on which I'd have disabled the metadata because the space allocated is too small. But, in the short term, I'm looking to see how I can most quickly return this device to "full service" (being able to extend or add volumes). And that seems to be using a pair of tiny PVs as metadata-only. If that makes sense. Does it? Thanks... Andrew _______________________________________________ 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/
