Cant you just do a "vgchange -aey" to put the vg into exclusive mode? Thats what used to be the way to do it. Its been a while though. <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 12, 2012 8:30 PM, "Yu" <<a href="mailto:songyu555@gmail.com">songyu555@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Alternatively, you might try to import vg with lickproto=lock_nolock, then do pvmove. Yu On 13/12/2012, at 13:46, Nicolas Ross <<a href="mailto:rossnick-lists@cybercat.ca">rossnick-lists@cybercat.ca</a>> wrote: > Hugo Lombard a écrit : >> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 02:30:57PM -0500, Nicolas Ross wrote: >>>> AFAICR on CentOS 5 I had to install cmirror and the applicable >>>> kmod-cmirror, make sure the cmirror service was started, and then pvmove >>>> did it's thing. >>> Do I need to start it on all nodes ? For now, it's not installed at all. >> Yes, I think you have to. > I can't still do it... > > I had to deactivate the LV, and activate it exclusivly on one node, and issue the pvmove, and I still get : > > Error locking on node node206.lan: device-mapper: create ioctl on VGa-pvmove0 failed: Device or resource busy > Failed to suspend logicalvolumename > ABORTING: Volume group metadata update failed. (first_time: 1) > > Regards, > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > <a href="mailto:Linux-cluster@redhat.com">Linux-cluster@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster</a> -- Linux-cluster mailing list <a href="mailto:Linux-cluster@redhat.com">Linux-cluster@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster</a></blockquote></div>