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From: malahal@us.ibm.com
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Removing a very old physical drive - revisited
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:07:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091028160747.GB11257@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256714228.2246.15.camel@elm.bottlehall.co.uk>

Nicholas Robinson [npr@bottlehall.co.uk] wrote:
> Hi Malahal
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I don't really want to use the new/temporary disc
> long-term, it seems that pvmove needs space to create a mirror-lv whilst
> it is working and it seemed possible that the original problem was that
> this extra space wasn't there.

As far as I know, you don't need extra space. The temporary mirror is
created to copy the data. I believe, it creates a corelog mirror and
should NOT need extra space. Let us hope someone responds from the
dm-devel list!

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-28 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-27 17:27 [linux-lvm] Removing a very old physical drive - revisited Nicholas Robinson
2009-10-28  1:29 ` malahal
2009-10-28  7:17   ` Nicholas Robinson
2009-10-28 16:07     ` malahal [this message]
2009-10-28 23:21       ` Nicholas Robinson
2009-10-29  4:01         ` Nicholas Robinson
2009-10-29 19:04           ` malahal
2009-10-30  1:48             ` Nicholas Robinson
2009-10-30  2:04               ` malahal

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