cluster service using HA-LVM tagging fails to recover after 'dm-X too small for target' errors in RHEL 6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Service with lvm resources failed and then could not be recovered on backup node because of 'dm-X too small for target' errors from device-mapper:
Jun 10 13:33:29 node2 kernel: device-mapper: table: 253:162: dm-46 too small for target: start=315648000, len=20971520, dev_size=41925120
Jun 10 13:33:29 node2 kernel: device-mapper: table: 253:191: dm-46 too small for target: start=303065088, len=12582912, dev_size=41925120
Jun 10 13:33:29 node2 kernel: device-mapper: table: 253:202: dm-46 too small for target: start=238946304, len=5398528, dev_size=41925120
Jun 10 13:33:38 node2 rgmanager[5052]: [lvm] Failed second attempt to activate myVG
Jun 10 13:33:38 node2 rgmanager[13202]: start on lvm "myVG" returned 1 (generic error)
Jun 10 13:33:38 node2 rgmanager[13202]: #68: Failed to start service:nfs-service; return value: 1

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 with the High Availability Add On
  • HA-LVM using tagging

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