From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from agk.fab.redhat.com (agk.fab.redhat.com [10.33.0.19]) by pobox.fab.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m1G0mgHH003867 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:48:42 -0500 Received: from agk by agk.fab.redhat.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1JQBEQ-0000vx-Lp for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:48:42 +0000 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:48:42 +0000 From: Alasdair G Kergon Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvmove safety Message-ID: <20080216004842.GG1788@agk.fab.redhat.com> References: <1C8CF1EA1A5B5940B81B0710B2A4C93850BB382BA1@an-ex.ActiveNetwerx.int> <1C8CF1EA1A5B5940B81B0710B2A4C93850BB382BD6@an-ex.ActiveNetwerx.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1C8CF1EA1A5B5940B81B0710B2A4C93850BB382BD6@an-ex.ActiveNetwerx.int> 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" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: LVM general discussion and development On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:21:12PM -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > If the pvmove is stopped at any point and an -abort is given, are all the > PE's that *were* reserved automatically freed up? Also, I assume the old PE's > aren't freed up until everything is copied over and in sync? Read the pvmove man page: the operation is done in stages with checkpoints, and an abort reverts to the last checkpoint. So part might have moved and part might not have moved. No old PEs are freed until the whole operation completes (or --abort). Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com