On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:45:16 +0100, John Leach wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:41 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > > To remove the metadata areas you need to: > > > > get an up-to-date metadata backup (vgcfgbackup) > > > > pvcreate --restorefile pointing at a copy of that backup file > requesting 0 metadata areas > > and specifying the same uuid as it had before > > > > vgcfgrestore from the backup file > > > This doesn't look like something you can do with the volume group active > (with cluster lvm anyway): > [root testnode0 ~]# pvcreate --restorefile san-metadata -u > fTLglk-j1C1-02Z7-8k6l-DTAm-2WNj-9ZGT19 --metadatacopies 0 /dev/hdb -ff > Really INITIALIZE physical volume "/dev/hdb" of volume group "san" [y/n]? y > Can't open /dev/hdb exclusively. Mounted filesystem? > Is that right, or am I missing something? >
Hi John, I know it's been a long time but, Did you found out a solution for this ? I'm trying to follow the same scenario to increase the metadatasize and got stuck at the same point. Thanks Charles -- Charles Koprowski Systems & Networks <http://www.audaxis.com/> [email protected] Tel : +33 3 20 63 88 70 <+33+3+20+63+88+70> GSM : +33 6 29 32 63 33 <+33+6+29+32+63+33> <http://twitter.com/audaxis> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/audaxis>
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