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Dave Wysochanski 0ddb66efba Add --pvmetadatacopies as a synonym for --metadatacopies in various commands.
Going forward, we would like to allow users to specify the total
number of metadatacopies in a VG rather than on a per-PV basis.  In
order to facilitate that, introduce --pvmetadatacopes to replace
--metadatacopies everywhere.  We still allow --metadatacopies for
pv commands, but require --pvmetadatacopies for vg commands.
Eventually we will introduce --vgmetadatacopies.  Once we do that,
we should either deprecate --metadatacopies or make it a synonym based
on the command (pvmetadatacopies for pv commands, and vgmetadatacopies
for vg commands).  The latter option would likely just require a simple
'strncpy' check against cmd->command->name to qualify the merge_synonym
call.

Update nightly tests to cover the pvmetadatacopies synonym.

Note that this patch is the result of an eariler review comment for
the implicit pvcreate patches.  Should apply cleanly on top of the
implicit pvcreate patches (I applied after patch 10/10 in that series).

NOTE: This patch will require --pvmetadatacopies for vgconvert as
--metadatacopies is no longer accepted.
2009-10-05 20:55:56 +00:00

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.TH VGCONVERT 8 "LVM TOOLS #VERSION#" "Sistina Software UK" \" -*- nroff -*-
.SH NAME
vgconvert \- convert volume group metadata format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B vgconvert
.RB [ \-d | \-\-debug ]
.RB [ \-h | \-\-help ]
.RB [ \-t | \-\-test ]
.RB [ \-v | \-\-verbose ]
.RB [ \-\-labelsector ]
.RB [ \-M | \-\-metadatatype type ]
.RB [ \-\-pvmetadatacopies #copies ]
.RB [ \-\-metadatasize size ]
.RB [ \-\-version ]
.IR VolumeGroupName " [" VolumeGroupName ...]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B vgconvert
converts
.I VolumeGroupName
metadata from one format to another provided that the metadata
fits into the same space.
.SH OPTIONS
See \fBlvm\fP(8) and \fBpvcreate\fP(8) for options.
.SH EXAMPLE
Convert volume group vg1 from LVM1 metadata format to the new LVM2
metadata format.
.sp
.B vgconvert -M2 vg1
.SH RECOVERY
Use \fBpvscan\fP(8) to see which PVs lost their metadata.
Run \fBpvcreate\fP(8) with the --uuid and --restorefile options on each
such PV to reformat it as it was, using the archive file that
\fBvgconvert\fP(8) created at the start of the procedure.
Finally run \fBvgcfgrestore\fP(8) with that archive file to restore
the original metadata.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR lvm (8),
.BR pvcreate (8),
.BR vgcfgrestore (8)