From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m77I8NNn013504 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:08:24 -0400 Received: from mule.trantor.org.uk (mule.trantor.org.uk [213.146.154.198]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m77I7vhb004677 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:07:58 -0400 Received: from lion.trantor.org.uk (cpc1-leds8-0-0-cust743.leed.cable.ntl.com [82.30.178.232]) by mule.trantor.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5DF4BE for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:07:57 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.87.26] (unknown [192.168.87.26]) by lion.trantor.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD18DC0048 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 19:24:23 +0100 (BST) From: John Leach Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:07:56 +0100 Message-Id: <1218132476.4013.10.camel@dogen.thepride.> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] metadata too large for circular buffer - any way to increase PV metadatasize? Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LVM general discussion and development Hi, I'm getting the dreaded "metadata too large for circular buffer" message trying to create a new LV in a volume group of a few hundred other LVs. As I understand, this is because the PVs don't have enough space for the metadata. This size can be set to a larger value when pvcreating with --metadatasize but I have obviously missed that boat :) Is there a way to increase this with live PVs, rather than shifting all the data off them and recreating and shifting back on? I have a multinode RedHat Cluster with CLVMD and two PVs. I can add additional PVs if that helps (though as I understand *every* PV needs enough metadata space). Thanks in advance! John. -- http://johnleach.co.uk