Eckhard, looks like /dev entries got messed up. Please try "vgscan -f" to fix them. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 05:32:29PM +0200, Eckhard Neber wrote: > Hello, > > I have a strange problem here. > During installation we misconfigured our external raid somehow to > provide the same lodical drive as lun0 as well as lun1. Linux detects > both and maps them as sdb and sdc. > Lvm activates one of them and everything works well, so we decided to > leave it that way as the server was already in use when we discovered > this problem. > Now we wanted to add two more ATA discs to the server that were used in > a different computer as one logical volume (data120). > Here is the output of some of the tools: > > 5#e:~ pvscan > pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdb" of VG "raid" [1.01 TB / 173.03 GB free] > pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/sdc" of VG "raid" [1.01 TB / 173.03 GB free] > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdc" of VG "data120" [57.26 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdd" of VG "data120" [57.26 GB / 0 free] > pvscan -- total: 4 [2.13 TB] / in use: 4 [2.13 TB] / in no VG: 0 [0] > > > 5#e:~ vgscan > vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) > vgscan -- found active volume group "raid" > vgscan -- found active volume group "data120" > vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created > vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume > groups > > > 5#e:~ lvscan > lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/raid/soft" [200 GB] > lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/raid/mail" [10 GB] > lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/raid/backup" [600 GB] > lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/raid/users" [50 GB] > lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/raid/soft" [200 GB] > lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/raid/mail" [10 GB] > lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/raid/backup" [600 GB] > lvscan -- ACTIVE "/dev/raid/users" [50 GB] > lvscan -- 8 logical volumes with 1.68 TB total in 2 volume groups > lvscan -- 8 active logical volumes > > > It is remarkable that the LVs of raid show up twice. What is really > strange is that if I mount /dev/data120/backup, which is the LV of the > ATA disks, it works, but I get the contents of /dev/raid/soft. > How can it be that these two VGs get mixed up? Is it because there are > identical names? > A quick solution could probably be to restrict the kernel to probe only > for lun0. I'd like to avoid to change the configuration of the raid > because it would require to fully back it up (in case that something > goes wrong). > We are using a kernel that was build from SuSE's sorces > linux-2.4.20.SuSE-86. > > I don't dare to mount and modify anything with data120 as I fear that it > could damage the other LVs. > > Any help would be appreciated. > Thanks in advance > > Eckhard Neber > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Eckhard Neber Tel: ++49-(0)731-50-26354 > Abt. Mikrowellentechnik Fax: ++49-(0)731-50-26359 > Universitaet Ulm e-mail: eckhard.neber@web.de > 89069 Ulm > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ *** 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/
