[linux-lvm] metadata too large for circular buffer - any way to increase PV metadatasize?

[Charles Koprowski]

 On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:45:16 +0100, John Leach wrote:

On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:41 +0100, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> > To remove the metadata areas you need to:
> >
> >    get an up-to-date metadata backup (vgcfgbackup)
> >
> >   pvcreate --restorefile pointing at a copy of that backup file
> requesting 0 metadata areas
> > and specifying the same uuid as it had before
> >
> >   vgcfgrestore from the backup file
> >
> This doesn't look like something you can do with the volume group active
> (with cluster lvm anyway):
> [root testnode0 ~]# pvcreate --restorefile san-metadata -u
> fTLglk-j1C1-02Z7-8k6l-DTAm-2WNj-9ZGT19 --metadatacopies 0 /dev/hdb -ff
> Really INITIALIZE physical volume "/dev/hdb" of volume group "san" [y/n]? y
>   Can't open /dev/hdb exclusively.  Mounted filesystem?
> Is that right, or am I missing something?
>

Hi John,

I know it's been a long time but, Did you found out a solution for this ?

I'm trying to follow the same scenario to increase the metadatasize and got
stuck at the same point.

Thanks

Charles

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