On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:58:53 -0400 Marc Smith <marc.smith@mcc.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm attempting to create a logical volume on a clustered volume group > in a (2) node Pacemaker + Corosync cluster (active/active). I have > successfully created the VG and it appears available on both hosts: > > [root@bill ~]# vgs > VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree > r0 1 0 0 wz--nc 203.24g 203.24g > > [root@ben ~]# vgs > VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree > r0 1 0 0 wz--nc 203.24g 203.24g > > When I attempt to create a LV on this VG from one of the hosts, I get > the following error message: > [root@ben ~]# lvcreate -L 150G -n testvmfs1 r0 > Error locking on node 40e6640a: Invalid argument > Error locking on node 31e6640a: Invalid argument > Failed to activate new LV. [...] > I've Google'd around a bit but haven't found any other posts quite > like this one. Here are the software versions I'm using on these > hosts: > Linux kernel: 3.7.8 > LVM2: 2.02.97 > DLM User Tools (dlm_controld): 4.0.1 > Corosync: 2.3.0 > Pacemaker: 1.1.8 Are you using a 64-bit environment. If so, then this might be the bug in the 3.7 kernel DLM driver. http://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2013-February/msg00060.html And here is the patch: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d4b0bcf32b946590afd29e202d6a399b84fe6c67 Greets, Jacek _______________________________________________ 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/