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From: John Leach <john@johnleach.co.uk>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] metadata too large for circular buffer - any way to increase PV metadatasize?
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:43:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1218141815.4013.27.camel@dogen.thepride.> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080807194151.GT7257@agk.fab.redhat.com>

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:41 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> Unfortunately there is no way to increase this retrospectively.
> Nor have we written tools to manipulate metadata areas yet.
> 
> You're right that the best option is to add more PVs.
> 
> Roughly:
> 
> Create a new PV with a much larger metadata area, add it to the VG,
> then stop using the too-small metadata areas on the old PVs.

Hi Alasdair,

thanks for the advice - very much appreciated.  I'm going to test this
out on a test cluster.  It will buy some time whilst we consider what to
do next (probably pvmove things around and recreate PVs with more
metadata space).

Thanks again,

John.

-- 
http://johnleach.co.uk

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-07 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-07 18:07 [linux-lvm] metadata too large for circular buffer - any way to increase PV metadatasize? John Leach
2008-08-07 19:41 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-08-07 19:52   ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-08-07 19:56     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-08-07 20:45     ` John Leach
2008-08-07 20:43   ` John Leach [this message]
2008-08-10 17:45   ` John Leach
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-09-28 13:51 Charles Koprowski
2016-09-29  9:23 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2016-09-30 17:39   ` Charles Koprowski

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