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 m77JuA3i032005 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:56:11 -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 m77Ju9T0017301 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:56:09 -0400 Received: from agk by agk.fab.redhat.com with local (Exim 4.34) id 1KRBaj-0006ag-NJ for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:56:09 +0100 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 20:56:09 +0100 From: Alasdair G Kergon Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] metadata too large for circular buffer - any way to increase PV metadatasize? Message-ID: <20080807195609.GV7257@agk.fab.redhat.com> References: <1218132476.4013.10.camel@dogen.thepride.> <20080807194151.GT7257@agk.fab.redhat.com> <20080807195241.GU7257@agk.fab.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080807195241.GU7257@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 On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:52:41PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > 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: I should also point out that although using in-filesystem metadata is a fully-supported configuration, it does not receive much testing because few people use it, so if you do need to use that method and hit any problems, certainly let us know. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com