Hardware Raid Expansion and LVM

[Seann Clark]

All,

    I am looking for a little help on finding out the best way to do 
this. I had a 4 disk 1.4TB RAID 5 array, and extended that to an 8 disk 
3.18TB array, on a 64 bit system.The Raid card handled the migration of 
the disks well, and everything on that side is up and running as it 
should. Problem is I don't know how to extend LVM to a larger size, 
without doing the whole adding of physical drives, and so forth, and the 
pv display doesn't show more than the 1.4TB that I started with. Most 
documentation details software RAID procedures that don't really work 
with this. I figure I am doing something(lots of things) wrong.

Commands I have used:

Thu Oct 09-13:10:36-root at haruhi:~> pvs -o +dev_size
  PV         VG         Fmt  Attr PSize PFree   DevSize
  /dev/sda2  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   9.78G  64.00M   9.81G
  /dev/sdb1  VolGroup00 lvm2 a-   1.35T 576.00M   1.35T

This error is after I resized the pv back to its original size:
Thu Oct 09-13:11:32-root at haruhi:~> lvresize -d -L 3.18T 
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
  Rounding up size to full physical extent 3.18 TB
  Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 3.18 TB
  Insufficient free space: 59572 extents needed, but only 20 available

Before that I was seeing:
device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
Failed to suspend lv1


Kernel output


Oct  9 12:43:02 haruhi kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target 
to table
Oct  9 12:43:08 haruhi kernel: device-mapper: table: device 8:17 too 
small for target
Oct  9 12:43:08 haruhi kernel: device-mapper: table: 253:0: linear: 
dm-linear: Device lookup failed
Oct  9 12:43:08 haruhi kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target 
to table




Hardware:
0d:01.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 9550SX SATA-RAID
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 20971519 512-byte 
hardware sectors (10737 MB)
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, 
read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 20971519 512-byte 
hardware sectors (10737 MB)
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, 
read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sda: sda1 sda2
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Very big device. Trying 
to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] 6814820353 512-byte 
hardware sectors (3489188 MB)
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, 
read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Very big device. Trying 
to use READ CAPACITY(16).
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] 6814820353 512-byte 
hardware sectors (3489188 MB)
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Oct  9 11:58:39 haruhi kernel: sd 0:0:0:1: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, 
read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

processor       : 7
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 23
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5430  @ 2.66GHz


Memory installed 4GB



O/S Fedora 9 x86_64




Thanks in advance,
Seann