Sachin, after M1 died, you should run "vgscan ; vgchange -ay HA_VG" on M2 to activate the VG there. On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:14:56PM +0530, Sachin Sant wrote: > I have a SCSI storage unit shared between two machines M1 and M2. On one > of the machine M1 i create a volume group HA_VG , create a LV vol1 and > filesystem using the LV vol1. > > --- >vgcreate HA_VG /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf > --- >lvcreate -i 3 -I 8 -L 100 -n vol1 HA_VG > --- >mkfs /dev/HA_VG/vol1 > --- >mount /dev/HA_VG/vol1 /mnt > > Now for some reason machine M1 dies and the VG is not exported. Using > the second machine M2 if i try to forcefully import the vg , vgimport > command coredumps. > > --- >vgimport -f HA_VG /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf > Segmentation fault > > Should vgimport coredump here. I guess this is not the right way to > recove the VG . [ I can recover the VG on machine M2 using vgscan / > vgchange -a y HA_VG ] > > I believe the problem might be with the following piece of code in > vgimport.c > > strncpy ( vg_name_this, > pv_this[0]->vg_name, > strlen ( pv_this[0]->vg_name) - strlen ( EXPORTED)); Right, it shouldn't get there, because the VG wasn't exported. > > Here the difference between strlen will be calculated as -1 in the above > senario. > > May be the right way would be just print a error message instead of a > core dump. > > Just let me know your thoughts. > > -Sachin > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ -- 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://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
