st <s...@e-head.net> (2014-02-25): > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > >> The problem seems to be that partman-lvm created PVs with only > >>195584 units-used-by-pvck allocated for metadata. However, there > >>is no way to create PVs with less than 1047552 units-used-by-pvck > >>with the standard pvcreate. > > > >Not true, as partman-lvm uses the standard pvcreate. The exact call is in > >[partman-lvm]/lib/lvm-base.sh > > grep pvcreate lib/lvm-base.sh > log-output -t partman-lvm pvcreate -ff -y "$pv" > > root@hulk:~# pvcreate -ff -y /dev/sdb1 > Writing physical volume data to disk "/dev/sdb1" > Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created > root@hulk:~# pvck /dev/sdb1 > Found label on /dev/sdb1, sector 1, type=LVM2 001 > Found text metadata area: offset=4096, size=1047552 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > True or not, it happens, and is highly reproducible.
I'm getting this inside d-i, built against udebs from unstable: ~ # pvck /dev/sda5 Found label on /dev/sda5, sector 1, type=LVM2 001 Found text metadata area: offset=4096, size=1044480 (i.e.: I'm not able to reproduce here; but I've got no 3TB things) Mraw, KiBi.
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