How to pvmove a volume that utilizes lvmlockd shared activation.

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Issue

  • How do I pvmove a volume that supports a GFS2 filesystem in RHEL 8?
  • How do I pvmove a volume that utilizes lvmlockd shared activation?

  • pvmove does not work on a shared VG that utilized lvmlockd

    [root@rhel8-node-1 ~]# pvmove -b -v -n cluster_lv /dev/sda /dev/sdb
  LV locked by other host: cluster_vg/cluster_lv
  pvmove in a shared VG requires exclusive lock on named LV.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 with Resilient Storage Add-on.

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