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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">A brief History</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Customer of mine has setted up a SLES 11 sp3 and SLES11sp4 HA environment and he has some LVM as resources.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When he tries to expand LVM for a “need of space” reason he wasn’t able to extend cause a corruption of metadata that even if recovered with vgcfgrestore doesn’t heal.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The customer has not configured LVM with the “c”( clustered ) attribute
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 95 VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 96 vg00 1 3 0 wz--n- 279.22g 88.22g<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> 97 vgWP4 2 10 0 wz--n- 49.97g 5.97g
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that prevents to extend the LVM and gets<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">83664 Setting global/locking_type to 3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">83665 global/wait_for_locks not found in config: defaulting to 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">83666 Cluster locking selected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">83667 connect() failed on local socket: No such file or directory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">83668 Internal cluster locking initialisation failed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">83669 Setting global/fallback_to_local_locking to 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">83670 locking/fallback_to_local_locking not found in config: defaulting to 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">83671 WARNING: Falling back to local file-based locking
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cause he has the file locking set to 3 ( correctly ) but he must have the “c” attribute to work properly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Coming to my question:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Is there a way to convert the LVMs without pain to cLVMs? I know that technically a vgchange -cy do the trick but I’m not sure which impacts it can have.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cristiano<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.75pt"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:IT">Cristiano Coltro</span></b><span lang="IT" style="mso-fareast-language:IT"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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