>>>>> "Galen" == Galen Seitz <gal...@seitzassoc.com> writes:
Russell> # pvmove -v -i10 /dev/md4 Russell> And it commenced to, I presume, do the right thing. After Russell> about 17%, I got some messages (which regrettable I did not Russell> preserve) about suspending (??) the pvmove, and my connection Russell> to the machine froze (done remotely over the network, no Russell> console available). A few hours later, I got down to the Russell> colo and looked at the console. There was a login prompt, Russell> which I could type at, but I never got a password prompt. Russell> So, I rebooted and it came back up fine, but the pvmove had Russell> clearly not succeeded. Googling about, I found this, which Russell> looks like what I saw: Russell> http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7004393 Russell> In brief, it suggests that you don't do a pvmove affecting a Russell> logical volume that holds /var and/or /var/run. Ouch, and: Russell> WHY-IS-THIS-NOT-IN-A-MUCH-LARGER-FONT??? Galen> What distribution and what version of kernel and lvm? Based on Galen> my searches, I think it should be possible, but it looks like Galen> there are multiple opportunities for deadlocks. Galen> <http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions> It's Gentoo. # uname -a Linux iris 2.6.30.4 #3 SMP Mon Aug 10 09:22:09 PDT 2009 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 2.83GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux # pvmove --version LVM version: 2.02.73(2) (2010-09-18) Library version: 1.02.54 (2010-08-18) Driver version: 4.14.0 -- Russell Senior, President russ...@personaltelco.net _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
