From: Steven Schlansker <stevenschlansker@calmail.berkeley.edu>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvmove ioctl errors
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:29:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45A36071.2040803@calmail.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070106161048.GA18619@kallisti.us>
Indeed I had the same error. Nothing I tried worked until I upgraded
the device mapper tools/libraries and the lvm stuff (not sure which one
fixed it, but doing both did)
Then it worked like a charm.
Ross Vandegrift wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Judging by the archives, a few others have seen this issue, but I'm
> getting errors when I try to pvmove off a PV to remove it from my VG:
>
> root@turalyon:~# pvmove -v /dev/hda2
> Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices
> Finding volume group "vg0"
> Archiving volume group "vg0" metadata (seqno 16).
> Creating logical volume pvmove0
> Moving 33769 extents of logical volume vg0/home
> Found volume group "vg0"
> Creating vg0-home
> Loading vg0-home table
> Resuming vg0-home (253:0)
> Updating volume group metadata
> Creating volume group backup "/etc/lvm/backup/vg0" (seqno 17).
> Found volume group "vg0"
> Found volume group "vg0"
> Suspending vg0-home (253:0)
> Found volume group "vg0"
> Creating vg0-pvmove0
> Loading vg0-pvmove0 table
> device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
> ABORTING: Temporary mirror activation failed. Run pvmove --abort.
> Found volume group "vg0"
> Loading vg0-pvmove0 table
> device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
> Loading vg0-home table
> device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
> root@turalyon:~#
>
>
> I noticed one post that indicated pvmove requires snapshot support,
> which I don't normally use. Before running this pvmove, I modprobed
> all of the dm-* modules just to make sure.
>
> The box in question is running Ubuntu Edgy Eft on i386. I've been
> able to recover just fine from this by rebooting, running pvmove
> --abort, and then rebooting again.
>
> Obviously this prevents me from removing the volume though. Thanks in
> advance for any help!
>
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-09 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-06 16:10 [linux-lvm] pvmove ioctl errors Ross Vandegrift
2007-01-09 9:29 ` Steven Schlansker [this message]
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