On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Ayal Baron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abaron@redhat.com" target="_blank">abaron@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br>> Alan Johnson < <a href="mailto:alan@datdec.com">alan@datdec.com</a>�> meant to write:<br>> So, no change.<br>
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</div></div>This looks like an LVM issue. �Have you tried deactivating the VG before pvresize?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have not, but I don't think I'll bother playing with that any more since there is a more accepted way of growing that has no significant down side and leaves open the potential for more functionality. �Good to know that I should not have to make the change.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I should mention that the host is running is a minimal install of CentOS 6.3, updated, and then tweaked by oVirt. �Perhaps there is some other package that enables this functionality?</div><div>�</div>
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> However, as I read this email, it occurred that some other things<br>
> might not be equal. Specifically, using multiple LUNs could provide<br>
> a means of shrinking the storage domain in the future. LVM provides<br>
> a simple means to remove a PV from a VG, but does the engine support<br>
> this in the CLI or GUI? That is, if the a storage domain has<br>
> multiple LUNs in it, can those be removed at a later date?<br>
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</div></div>Not yet.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><div>Does this mean it is in the works? �If not, where could I put in such feature request?</div><div><br></div><div>Certainly, I have no pressing need of this, but it seems like a fairly simple thing to implement since I have done it so easily in the past with a just a couple of commands outside of an oVirt environment. �I believe the primary purpose of the LVM functionality was to enable removal of dying PVs before they take out an entire VG. �No reason it would not work just as well to remove a healthy PV. �It can take a long time to move all the extents off the PV requested, but there is�command�to show the progress, so it would also be easy to wrap that in to the GUI.</div>