Cannot create logical volume ("Device or resource busy")
Issue
- When trying to create a clustered logical volume, we see the following error:
# lvcreate -l 100%FREE -n lv01 vg01
Error locking on node hostname.example.com: device-mapper: create ioctl on vg01-lv01 failed: Device or resource busy
Failed to activate new LV.
- When we attempt to remove the device-mapper entry, we see:
# dmsetup remove vg01-lv01
Limit for the maximum number of semaphores reached. You can check and set the limits in /proc/sys/kernel/sem.
Command failed
In /proc/sys/kernel/sem, we see
# cat/ proc/sys/kernel/sem
250 100 100 128
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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