[linux-lvm] pvmove hung on 2.6.22 (ubuntu gutsy)

noah noah123 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 11:42:20 UTC 2007


2007/9/5, Bryn M. Reeves <breeves at redhat.com>:
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> noah wrote:
> > 2007/9/2, noah <noah123 at gmail.com>:
> >> 2007/9/1, Hannes Dorbath <light at theendofthetunnel.de>:
> >>> noah wrote:
> >>>> Pvmove hung and now all commands that access the filesystem hang too,
> >>>> possibly in uninterruptible sleep.
> >>>> Is this a bug or did I do something forbidden, somehow? ;)
> >>> To my knowledge pvmove is broken on 2.6.22. I'd go back to 2.6.21 until
> >>> there is a fix. Maybe there is already a fix, I haven't followed it.
> >> Thanks for a quick reply.
> >> Has this problem been documented elsewhere?
> >> Just curious what the problem is and whether anybody is working on a fix.
> >
> > I'm still curious what the problem is, when it happend, why and
> > whether or not somebody is working on it.
> > Is this a problem with dm, lvm, barriers, userland utilities or something else?
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> The fix was merged in 2.6.22.2 - file a bug with your distribution to
> have it included.
>
> The patch is here:
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> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/7/401

This patch is already applied on the kernel i was running.
Also, I'm not sure I'm using dm-raid at all since I don't have one of
these lame software (BIOS) RAID cards. I'm using md and dm-crypt
straight on top of the harddrives.

Could I have hit a different bug?

  -- noah




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