On Nov 30, 2001 13:29 -0900, Nay, Shawn wrote: > Well the pvdata -E output for my drives was empty, no LV's listed. Well, it sounds like the same bug that Lars had - LV table and part of PE table were zero'd out. In his case, there was a backup LV table that we could use, and rebuilding the PE table was obvious given the context. Have you tried vgcfgrestore yet? Do you get anything useful from "pvdata -avP <dev>" on each device? > This is kind of disappointing. I have been using LVM under AIX for some > time and am familiar with the concepts and it's not that complicated. Well, I was a long time AIX LVM user, and I agree that it was bullet-proof. The Linux LVM code isn't there yet. Always have backups. > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andreas Dilger [mailto:adilger@turbolabs.com] > > Send the output of "pvdata -E /dev/whatever" for all the PVs, and we can > > see if your LV even exists anymore. If it is overwritten, I'm wondering > > if this is the same bug as hit Lars. Maybe related to the recent change > > to zero out unused parts of the VGDA. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
