From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pobox.fab.redhat.com (pobox.fab.redhat.com [10.33.63.12]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m77Jqf0G029577 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:52:41 -0400 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 m77JqfZ7016738 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:52:41 -0400 Received: from agk by agk.fab.redhat.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1KRBXN-0006aX-4X for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:52:41 +0100 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:52:41 +0100 From: Alasdair G Kergon Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] metadata too large for circular buffer - any way to increase PV metadatasize? Message-ID: <20080807195241.GU7257@agk.fab.redhat.com> References: <1218132476.4013.10.camel@dogen.thepride.> <20080807194151.GT7257@agk.fab.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080807194151.GT7257@agk.fab.redhat.com> 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 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