From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i8TK3vr01617 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:03:57 -0400 Received: from dermis.amis.com (dermis.amis.com [207.141.5.253]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with SMTP id i8TK3pRP017719 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:03:51 -0400 Received: from [172.16.17.173] (bighorn.design.amis.com [172.16.17.173]) by mxrelayus.pc.amis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C678A5869A for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:03:44 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <415B14E7.1010401@theserrs.net> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:02:47 -0600 From: Scott Serr MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvmove unable to move extents to multiple smaller pvs References: <415A53B4.60001@theserrs.net> In-Reply-To: <415A53B4.60001@theserrs.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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"; format="flowed" To: LVM general discussion and development Some more information that may be of use: kernel 2.4.26 (vanilla) on gentoo on a P4 HT and SMP is enabled lvm 2.00.08 It seems that everytime I do a "pvmove" it would be hard to always go to a contiguous pv the same size or bigger. This is why I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. Thanks again [to anyone out there], Scott Serr Scott Serr wrote: > I'm trying to use pvmove to shuffle things around. I have a pv with > 22375 extents which I would like to remove from the system. I've > added two (2) pvs with 11194 extents each. I get an error message: > > Insufficient contiguous allocatable extents (11194) for logical volume > pvmove0: 22375 required > Allocation for temporary pvmove LV > > Now before you say, don't make it contiguous... It seems that it isn't > already. > > # lvchange --contiguous n /dev/data_vg/data_lv > Allocation policy of logical volume "data_lv" is already not contiguous > > Is this normal? Do I really need all that contiguous space on 1 pv? > > Thanks in advance, > Scott Serr > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/