Bug#428409: pvmove does not work

[Fredrik Olofsson]

Hi,

I am in the exact same situation and run into the same problem:

~# pvmove -i 1 -n /dev/lnxfredriko/swap_1 /dev/sda5       
  Failure parsing mirror status fraction: 1 core
  Failure parsing mirror status fraction: 1 core
  ABORTING: Mirror percentage check failed.

~# pvdisplay 
  --- Physical volume ---
  PV Name               /dev/sda5
  VG Name               lnxfredriko
  PV Size               148,81 GB / not usable 2,14 MB
  Allocatable           yes (but full)
  PE Size (KByte)       4096
  Total PE              38095
  Free PE               0
  Allocated PE          38095
  PV UUID               gUSs14-QMSD-4xzq-UUqL-fObI-fEQd-xCP4By
   
  --- Physical volume ---
  PV Name               /dev/md0
  VG Name               lnxfredriko
  PV Size               148,81 GB / not usable 2,06 MB
  Allocatable           yes 
  PE Size (KByte)       4096
  Total PE              38095
  Free PE               38095
  Allocated PE          0
  PV UUID               iD4cBV-IzJT-4Gtz-67y3-s9fx-VQp5-O1OLML

Googling for this I found that it might be because of a bug in Linux
2.6.22:
http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20070712.081945.9bcb0b19.en.html

Thanks
/Fredrik

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lvm2 depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.6.1-1+b1     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1        2:1.02.20-2    The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20070812-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5              5.2-3          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libselinux1               2.0.15-2+b1    SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsepol1                 2.0.3-1+b1     Security Enhanced Linux policy lib

lvm2 recommends no packages.

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