[Linux-cluster] lvcreate hangs always

[Diamond Li]

Could someone  kindly help me to get through because I haven been
blocked for very long time.


On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Diamond Li <diamondiona at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello  everyone,
>
>  I am trying to create a mirror LVM on cluster, but lvcreate hangs
>  every time and I have to use kill from another terminal. According to
>  release note, this should be supported since  5.3
>
>  Any words from wisdoms?
>
>  [root at wplccdlvm446 ~]# lvcreate -vvvv  -m1 --mirrorlog core -L 800M   vg00
>  #lvmcmdline.c:987         Processing: lvcreate -vvvv -m1 --mirrorlog
>  core -L 800M vg00
>  #lvmcmdline.c:990         O_DIRECT will be used
>  #config/config.c:950       Setting global/locking_type to 3
>  #locking/locking.c:253       Cluster locking selected.
>  #activate/activate.c:363       Getting target version for linear
>  #ioctl/libdm-iface.c:1672         dm version   OF   [16384]
>  #ioctl/libdm-iface.c:1672         dm versions   OF   [16384]
>  #activate/activate.c:363       Getting target version for striped
>  #ioctl/libdm-iface.c:1672         dm versions   OF   [16384]
>  #lvcreate.c:318     Setting logging type to core
>  #config/config.c:950       Setting activation/mirror_region_size to 512
>  #lvcreate.c:997     Finding volume group "vg00"
>  #locking/cluster_locking.c:458       Locking VG V_vg00 PW B (0x4)
>
>  [root at wplccdlvm446 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
>  Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)
>
> [root at wplccdlvm446 ~]# uname -r
>  2.6.18-164.el5
>  same result, every I added nosync parameter.
>
>  [root at wplccdlvm446 ~]# lvcreate -vvvv  --nosync -m1 --mirrorlog core
>  -L 800M   vg00
>