[linux-lvm] pvmove error

[Stephen Fralich]

I'm running RedHat 9.  pvmove works fine with the LVM and kernel that come with RH9.  I would like to use XFS in place of ext3 though, which means patching the kernel.  I'm using the vanilla kernel 2.4.21 and lvm 1.0.7 (tools and driver).  Everything goes fine until I use pvmove.  I haven't patched the kernel for XFS yet, so the LVM patch is the only change to the kernel.   I'm using an IBM ServeRAID-4H card with the ips driver v6.00.31.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.

[root at sauron root]# pvmove -vv /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
pvmove -- checking name of source physical volume "/dev/sdb"
pvmove -- locking logical volume manager
pvmove -- reading data of source physical volume from "/dev/sdb"
pvmove -- checking volume group existence
pvmove -- reading data of volume group "vg03" from lvmtab
pvmove -- checking volume group consistency of "vg03"
pvmove -- searching for source physical volume "/dev/sdb" in volume group "vg03"
pvmove -- building list of possible destination physical volumes
pvmove -- checking destination physical volume names in command line
pvmove -- checking volume group activity
pvmove -- moving physical extents in active volume group "vg03"
pvmove -- WARNING: if you lose power during the move you may need
        to restore your LVM metadata from backup!
pvmove -- do you want to continue? [y/n] y
pvmove -- starting to move extents away from physical volume "/dev/sdb"
pvmove -- checking for enough free physical extents in "vg03"
lv: /dev/vg03/lv03[1]  old_dev: 08:16  new_dev: 08:32  old_pe_sector: 33152  new_pe_sector: 33152
pvmove -- opening output physical volume "/dev/sdc"
pvmove -- llseeking input physical volume "/dev/sdb"
pvmove -- llseeking output physical volume "/dev/sdc"
pvmove -- /dev/sdb [PE 0 [lv03 [LE 0]] -> /dev/sdc [PE 0] [1/8677]
pvmove -- copying extent from /dev/sdb::/dev/vg03/lv03(0x0810):33152 to /dev/sdc(0x0820):33152 on disk
/dev/vg03/group::/dev/vg03/lv03: 0810 33152, 0820 33152
pvmove -- ERROR "Inappropriate ioctl for device" copying extent from "/dev/sdb"

pvmove -- ERROR "Inappropriate ioctl for device" moving physical extents

This appears on the console as well :: 
lvm -- lvm_chr_ioctl: unknown command 0x4004fe51

Stephen

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