[Linux-cluster] What is the proper way to grow LVM/GFS volumes

[Alan A]

This was great help - I rebooted the nodes one by one, and afterwards
lvextend command worked. I will try to reproduce the errors and see if
killing clvmd does the trick.

2008/11/19 Jeremy Lyon <jerlyon at gmail.com>

>
>> I have also encountered this problem several times, and although this list
>> seems to recommend running clvmd -R it has in fact never helped the
>> situation (I'm running centos 5.2). The only way I can solve this problem is
>> by rebooting all nodes in the cluster and then extending the lv.
>>
>
> We have seen this too, but do not go the route of rebooting.  The nice
> thing about clvmd is that it's not required for the cluster to continue
> running once up and established.  It's purpose is to communicate LVM
> metadata changes to all nodes in the cluster.  So you can simply kill -9 the
> clvmd process on all nodes then run service clvmd start. This will get clvmd
> back up and allow pv/vg/lv commmands to complete correctly.
>
> -Jeremy
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