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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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, 7 Aug 2008 20:52:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080807195241.GU7257@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080807194151.GT7257@agk.fab.redhat.com>

And if you have problems making space in the metadata to add the PV to it,
a workaround is to temporarily use in-filesystem metadata:

  create a metadata dir in a local filesystem (NOT an LV), and place an up-to-date
  backup copy of the metadata there (from vgcfgbackup)

  update lvm.conf to start using this metadata (metadata/dirs)
  - use verbose display options to check it's doing this

  pvcreate as in my last message to remove the too-small metadata area
  - you're now relying entirely on the in-filesystem metadata

  add the new PVs to the VG as before

  revert the lvm.conf change
  
Alasdair
-- 
agk@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-07 19:52 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 [this message]
2008-08-07 19:56     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-08-07 20:45     ` John Leach
2008-08-07 20:43   ` John Leach
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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