topic Re: Splitting a mirror with LVM in Operating System - Linux

Splitting a mirror with LVM

Jonathan Caplette_1 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:36:50 GMT

Hi guys,

I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6).

I've created a mirror of a Logical Volume with this command:

# lvconvert -m1 --corelog /dev/datavg/data /dev/dm-16

Now I've this:

# lvs -a -o name,copy_percent,devices
LV Copy% Devices
data 100.00 data_mimage_0(0),data_mimage_1(0)
[data_mimage_0] /dev/dm-11(0)
[data_mimage_0] /dev/dm-10(0)
[data_mimage_0] /dev/dm-14(0)
[data_mimage_1] /dev/dm-16(0)
ctrlmlv /dev/sda2(800)
homelv /dev/sda2(608)
slashlv /dev/sda2(0)
swaplv /dev/sda2(960)
tmplv /dev/sda2(832)

What I want to do is to remove the copy of that LV from my PV dm-11, dm-10 and dm-14.

I tried this:

# lvconvert -m0 /dev/datavg/data /dev/dm-10 /dev/dm-11 /dev/dm-14
No free extents on physical volume "/dev/dm-10"
No free extents on physical volume "/dev/dm-11"
No mirror images found using specified PVs.

What did I do wrong? My goal was to remove devices dm-10, dm-11 and dm-14 from my VG, so I decided to extend the VG with dm-16 and mirror my data LV to that device, then split that mirror from the other devices. The FS is mounted and need to stay online...

Thanks
Jonathan

Re: Splitting a mirror with LVM

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:49:21 GMT

Shalom Jonathan,

Please take a look at:

lvdisplay -v

The first step to solving the problem is figuring out where the mirror copies are.

Doing a mirror to multipath drive can be problematic as these drives represent multiple paths to possibly the same physical drive. Your mirror may have both mirror copies on the same drive, which makes them have no value to avoid data loss.

Also, if you could specify the server maker and hardware model, there may already be hardware mirroring in play or available.

SEP

Re: Splitting a mirror with LVM

Jonathan Caplette_1 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:06:34 GMT

Here the lvdisplay result

# lvdisplay -v /dev/datavg/data
Using logical volume(s) on command line
--- Logical volume ---
LV Name /dev/datavg/data
VG Name datavg
LV UUID kqAdQf-9FNq-eq2r-MUmk-0X8P-db0h-yPBKaK
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 200.00 GB
Current LE 51200
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors 0
Block device 253:15

In fact, I know exactly were my mirror is spread, since I did it manually.

Primary devices Mirrored to:
dm-10 dm-16
dm-11 dm-16
dm-14 dm-16