As far as syslog messages, I did not see anything out of the ordinary before the pvmove. Now of course I get the error message produced by vgscan which I pasted in the first message.
Not quite sure what you mean about "using vol2's content". I cannot get LVM to recognize vol2, so of course it will not activate it. So I cannot mount any of the volumes in vol2.
It is only complaining about /dev/vol2/software volume. If there was someway I could delete this volume without having to have vol2 activated, that might solve the problem--unless other volumes' metadata is corrupted as well. I seem to remember reading about LVM2's ability to do a partial activation (missing 1 or more PVs from a VG). Would it be worthwhile to try and mount vol2 under LVM2 with hdh3 removed?
Thanks,
Skip
From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com>
Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvmove problem
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 14:53:49 +0100
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 05:50:21PM +0000, B. Dobalina wrote:
> Its linux 2.4.19 (with the sgi xfs patch) and lvm 1.0.6. I have two volumes,
> the other volume (vol1) is unaffected. All lvm operations seem to be working
> on vol1. For vol2 (the one that I executed a pvmove on), I cannot get lvm to
> recognize it so I cannot perform any lvm operations.
You've got the actual LVM software. Let's try to approach the problem
a bit more...
Have there been any syslog messages spotting some light on this ?
Are you still able to use vol2's content ?
Before changing anything, don't forget to keep recent backups!
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
>
> -skip
>
>
>
>
> Which LVM and Linux version is this ?
> Does everything else irt LVM with the exception of pvmove ru fine
> (i.e. creating/removing LVs etc.) ?
>
> Regards,
> Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:26:44PM +0000, B. Dobalina wrote:
> >I am trying to remove an old harddrive from one of my volumes using:
> > pvmove -v /dev/hdh3
> >It was chugging along just find until about half way through when it froze.
> >Linux was not "frozen", but I do not think it would allow any io to the
> >block devices (logins, ls's, etc would stall). I waited about an hour, at
> >which point it was still stuck on the same extent, and had no other option
> >but to hard reboot. When the system was booted, the volume to which hdh3
> >belonged, would no longer mount:
> >
> >$ vgscan
> >vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> >vgscan -- found active volume group "vol1"
> >vgscan -- only found 2523 of 768 LEs for LV /dev/vol2/software (1)
> >vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" can't get
> >data of volume group "vol2" from physical volume(s)
> >vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
> >vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume
> >groups
> >
> >
> >Looks like some lvm metadata has been corrupted. So I ran vgcfgrestore on
> >/dev/hdh3: same result. Then I ran it on all the PVs in vol2: same result.
> >Does anybody have a solution to get this volume mounted? There is a bunch
> >of data on vol2, but not all that much in /dev/hdh3, so a partial restore
> >would be ok.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Skip
> >
> >
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