[linux-lvm] pvmove - Can't expand LV: Mirror support missingfromkernel?

[Steve Wray]

Garrick Staples wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:41:54PM -0400, Dan Merillat alleged:
> > On Sat, 03 Jul 2004, Steve Wray wrote:
> > 
> > > I strongly doubt that you'll get any help out of the list on this,
> > > but if someone does send you a fix which works, off-list, *please*
> > > send it to me too; I have two failing disks which I need to decommission.
> > 
> > stock 2.6 dosn't have many dm-targets in it.  Pick up the LVM patches
> > off the website and apply them for the more "experimental" things like
> > mirroring.
> 
> What the?
> 
[snip]
> 
> Some of those patch tarballs seem to be patching a whole lot more then
> just dm.

Indeed and this is what I have in the .config for a kernel which can't 
do a pvmove;

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM=m
CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=m
CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH=m
CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT=m
CONFIG_DM_MIRROR=m
CONFIG_DM_FLAKEY=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM_BBR=m


oh and, yes, I did run modprobe dm-mirror.