LVM commands are returning "metadata too large for circular buffer" on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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Issue

  • I'm having problem on pvmove with one of our server.  Command performed for pvmove and the error output:
    # pvmove -v -i 10 /dev/sdco1:86535-86791 
        Finding volume group "VolGroup01" 
      Detected pvmove in progress for /dev/sdco1 
        Found volume group "VolGroup01" 
        Found volume group "VolGroup01" 
        Checking progress every 10 seconds 
      /dev/sdco1: Moved: 100.0% 
      VG VolGroup01 metadata too large for circular buffer 
      ABORTING: Failed to write new data locations to disk. 
    
  • I'v tried to abort pvmove operation:
    # pvmove --abort 
      VG cgvg metadata too large for circular buffer 
      ABORTING: Failed to write new data locations to disk. 
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5

  • LVM2 configuration with a large combination of:

    • many physical LVM volumes (PV)

    • many logical LVM volumes (LV)

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