From: Scott Serr <serrs@theserrs.net>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvmove unable to move extents to multiple smaller pvs
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:20:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <415B7B88.8060402@theserrs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096489215.1685.109.camel@localhost>
For anyone out there with this problem... if pvmove doesn't seem to
understand specified PE ranges on the source PV, then upgrade to a newer
LVM2. Gentoo's current stable .08 does not have this, but the source
2.00.25 sure does.
Clint Byrum wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 13:02, Scott Serr wrote:
>
>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>
>Scott, I think this was just discussed on the list last week. What you
>need to do is pvmove in smaller chunks. pvmove only sees the first
>available block of PE's.
>
>So
>
>pvmove /dev/diskdev:1-11194
>
>Or something like that. Check the list archives from 2 or 3 days ago.
>
>
>
>>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
>>>
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-30 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-29 6:18 [linux-lvm] pvmove unable to move extents to multiple smaller pvs Scott Serr
2004-09-29 20:02 ` Scott Serr
2004-09-29 20:20 ` Clint Byrum
2004-09-29 21:09 ` Scott Serr
2004-09-30 3:20 ` Scott Serr [this message]
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