Re: `pvmove stuck' in RH bugzilla

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Wed Jul 06 2011 - 07:38:53 EST


On (07/06/11 12:23), Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 12:53:10PM +0300, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > I think we just trapped into the same trouble with pvmove as described in
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=602516
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706036
> >
> > Alasdair, could you please point are those patches in vanilla kernel
> > (3.0-rc*) or linux-next, or some RH internal tree?
> > This is not critical, though I'd like to try out patches.
>
> This is a userspace bug not a kernel one.
> There is a workaround, which is to perform the pvmove one LV at a time
> using the --name option. (For each LV, run pvmove -n <lvname>.)
>
> The patched code is in the upstream lvm2 repository:
> git://sources.redhat.com/git/lvm2
> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/doc/?cvsroot=lvm2
> http://sourceware.org/lvm2/
>
> It was only last night that the code incorporating these changes passed
> our public testsuite for the first time, so I think it is still
> premature to be using this on production systems. But this means I hope
> to be in a position to make the first development release containing a
> fix for the problems quite soon. (I added assertions to catch other
> instances of the related problems - it was more than just pvmove
> affected.)
>

Thanks a lot for your reply.
We don't have a production machines here (just internal servers),
so I guess I could give it a try.


Best,
Sergey

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