Well, this means that your copy on write exception table got toasted :-( Check out top of LVM CVS at www.sistina.com (follow guidelines for CVS access provided there) which contains a "-r" (or --remove_snapshots) option for vgscan. That option removes *all* snapshots of all or a particular VG at VG activation time so that vgchange can activate VGs afterwards. For eg. "vgscan -r vg00" would try to activate all VGs and remove all snapshots in the VG named "vg00". On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:17:15AM +0100, Lars-Gunnar Ellenberg wrote: > > hi, > I found only three matches, two postings, for this, and no solution. may > be you solved this problem back then, and can tell me about it. > > I cannot vgchange -a y : > _pv_get_number_failed for rdev = 65535 > _lvm_snapshot_fill_COW_page failed > > (I once toyed around with a snapshot, but never used it actually, and > obviously never removed it again) > > so is there an "easy" solution except recreating the whole thing and > hoping for some recent backup (which I doubt...) > > if theres no solution, is there a way to dd the data somewhere > and mount -o loop it to get the data back? > > > -- ,,, > > -- Lars (o o) > ---o00-(_)-00o---- > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
