On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 11:47:12AM +0100, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote: > > Erkkhi, > > this is a bug in 1.0.3 with exported VGs. > > If you import your VG "mirror" again, you should be fine. > Rather than imprting, "vgscan -f" should work as well. > > Will look into it. Are /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part1 and /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 really the ones making up /dev/md/1 ? Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > Regards, > Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 03:55:05AM +0200, Erkki Seppala wrote: > > Whether the bugzilla is publicly open is unclear to me, atleast there > > didn't seem to be a link there in sistina.com/lvm - or I didn't find > > it. > > > > Actually I'm not sure if there is a real reason to fix this, as it > > would need making vgscan understand more about the raid-stuff, but it > > sure does look confusing. Perhaps a generic facility to "blind out" > > devices from it? Perhaps this kind of capability should be in the > > kernel, not just for LVM.. > > > > I recently had a problem with a volume group reusing an existing > > logical volume number, but I resolved that, as vgscan suggested, with > > vgexport/vgimport. However, this bug appeared: > > > > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > > vgscan -- found active volume group "mirror" > > vgscan -- found active volume group "ibm9" > > vgscan -- found active volume group "archive" > > vgscan -- found inactive volume group "mirrorPV_EXP" > > vgscan -- ERROR: VG "mirrorPV_EXP" reuses an existing VG number; please vgexport/vgimport that VG or use option -f > > vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created > > vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume groups > > > > I imagine this is because /dev/md/1 is raid1 and consists of > > /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part1 and > > /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1. Output of pvscan: > > > > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/md/1" of VG "mirror" [55.91 GB / 13.89 GB free] > > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part1" is in EXPORTED VG "mirror" [55.91 GB / 13.89 GB free] > > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1" is in EXPORTED VG "mirror" [55.91 GB / 13.89 GB free] > > pvscan -- total: 6 [311.82 GB] / in use: 5 [290.79 GB] / in no VG: 1 [21.03 GB] > > > > (some lines removed) > > > > I run kernel 2.4.16 and LVM-tools from today's CVS. > > > > Btw, during the original repairing I saw a situation where one of my > > volume groups (archive) was twice in /proc/lvm/global. That's not > > healthy, is it? I imagine it had something to do with the fact that > > after scanning volume group "archive" it failed to scan volume group > > "mirror" (due to the reuse-problem), and I kept trying different > > stuff.. > > > > -- > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > / __// /__ ____ __ Erkki Seppälä\ \ > > / /_ / // // /\ \/ //ircnet Modeemi Ry\ / > > /_/ /_/ \___/ /_/\_\@modeemi.fi http://www.modeemi.fi/~flux/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 *** 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
