Description of problem: RHEL 4.5 Beta hostbased mirroring When using "mirroring with logging" with three disks, it seems not to possible to define which disk gets which part. (RHEL 5 doc state it should work) example: Disk dm-11 is a disk on location CCAZ disks dm5 en dm-6 are disks on location CCAN De configuration mqu_QTTEST is not Ok because mimage0 and 1 are both on the same location ... [root@bsxe01001 ~]# lvs -a -o +devices LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Devices log_QTTEST vgmqm mwi-a- 300.00M log_QTTEST_mlog 0.00 log_QTTEST_mimage_0(0),log_QTTEST_mimage_1(0) [log_QTTEST_mimage_0] vgmqm iwi--- 300.00M /dev/dm-11(1) [log_QTTEST_mimage_1] vgmqm iwi--- 300.00M /dev/dm-5(50) [log_QTTEST_mlog] vgmqm lwi--- 4.00M /dev/dm-6(50) mqu_QTTEST vgmqm mwi-a- 200.00M mqu_QTTEST_mlog 0.00 mqu_QTTEST_mimage_0(0),mqu_QTTEST_mimage_1(0) [mqu_QTTEST_mimage_0] vgmqm iwi--- 200.00M /dev/dm-5(0) [mqu_QTTEST_mimage_1] vgmqm iwi--- 200.00M /dev/dm-6(0) [mqu_QTTEST_mlog] vgmqm lwi--- 4.00M /dev/dm-11(0) qmgrs_QTTEST vgmqm mwi-a- 300.00M qmgrs_QTTEST_mlog 0.00 qmgrs_QTTEST_mimage_0(0),qmgrs_QTTEST_mimage_1(0) [qmgrs_QTTEST_mimage_0] vgmqm iwi--- 300.00M /dev/dm-6(51) [qmgrs_QTTEST_mimage_1] vgmqm iwi--- 300.00M /dev/dm-11(76) [qmgrs_QTTEST_mlog] vgmqm lwi--- 4.00M /dev/dm-5(125) Hardware used: SUN V40z with RHEL4 Update 5 beta kernel-smp-2.6.9-50.EL cman-kernel-smp-2.6.9-49.2 cman-kernheaders-2.6.9-49.2 cman-1.0.17-0 dlm-1.0.1-2 dlm-kernel-smp-2.6.9-46.14 dlm-kernheaders-2.6.9-46.14 GFS-kernheaders-2.6.9-71.0 GFS-6.1.13-0 GFS-kernel-smp-2.6.9-71.0 ccs-1.0.10-0 cmirror-kernel-smp-2.6.9-25.0 cmirror-1.0.1-1 lvm2-2.02.21-4.el4 lvm2-cluster-2.02.21-3.el4
This is a dup of bz 199580. There a work around given in comment #7 of that bug, but I agree, this needs to be made even easier then that.
Additionally, the lvm manual addresses this. Closing as dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 199580 ***