[linux-lvm] shift PV from disk to raid device?

[Kai Schaetzl]

Bryn M. Reeves wrote on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:24:49 +0000:

> I also don't really 
> understand why you want to do all this if the data is already on md2.

Maybe I didn't make the problem clear in my first posting.
I created a single member md RAID1 device /dev/md2 on top of /dev/sda3 
(single member because the other disk /dev/sdb3 was holding the data). 
Then I created a PV on /dev/sda3 and a VG on it. I should have done this 
on /dev/md2, though. Small oversight on my part. (I had to recreate that 
array after a complete lowlevel format of the disk and I had the data all 
fine on /dev/sdb3. So I accidentally created the PV on the "counterpart" 
/dev/sda3 instead of the existing raid device.)
Then I moved all the LVs and data back on that PV, added /dev/sdb3 to the 
md device and let it sync. And now I have two identical PVs on both disks 
instead of one PV on the md device.
So, you think pvmove /dev/sda3 /dev/md2 would just do what I want?
Should I break the array and perform the move on the single member array, 
so that I can keep my data on /dev/sdb3 in case something goes wrong?

Kai

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