Thanks for the tip. But "md_component_detection = 1" is already set in my lvm.conf file. Any other tips? Perhaps also linked to sometimes getting an "out of memory" message when running the user tools? ----------------------------------- commands/toolcontext.c:139 Logging initialised at Wed Jul 21 13:48:44 2004 commands/toolcontext.c:158 Set umask to 0077 vgscan.c:51 vgscan Wiping cache of LVM-capable devices vgscan.c:54 vgscan Wiping internal cache vgscan.c:57 vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... toollib.c:414 vgscan Finding all volume groups toollib.c:330 vgscan Finding volume group "vg00" mm/pool-fast.c:224 vgscan Out of memory. Requested 3191341076 bytes. format1/disk-rep.c:364 vgscan Failed to read extents from /dev/sdb mm/pool-fast.c:224 vgscan Out of memory. Requested 3191341076 bytes. format1/disk-rep.c:364 vgscan Failed to read extents from /dev/sdb mm/pool-fast.c:224 vgscan Out of memory. Requested 3191341076 bytes. format1/disk-rep.c:364 vgscan Failed to read extents from /dev/sdc vgscan.c:22 vgscan Volume group "vg00" not found toollib.c:330 vgscan Finding volume group "rootvg" vgscan.c:37 vgscan Found volume group "rootvg" using metadata type lvm2 ------------------------------- The partition scheme on all three drives are the same: -------------------------------------------------- # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 36.4 GB, 36420075008 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4427 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 14 144 1052257+ 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 145 4427 34403197+ fd Linux raid autodetect -------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Caulfield" <pcaulfie@redhat.com> To: "LVM general discussion and development" <linux-lvm@redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:34 AM Subject: Re: LVM2 and RAID 1 not working on Fedora Core 2 > On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:42:58AM -0400, Zachary Hamm wrote: > > > > Hello, I'm running Fedora Core 2 on a Dell Poweredge 1750 with three 36G > > SCSI drives setup with two volumes, /boot and /, setup with software RAID 1 > > with online spare. This was setup at install, which reported no errors. > > I've done a yum update as well. > > > > The problem is that only one of the to volume groups is recognized and > > mirrored (/boot), as apparently vgscan does not like the the large drives > > (which aren't that large...). Any help is appreciated. > > > > It looks to me like you need to stop LVM looking at the "real" disks, and make > it only look at the MD devices. > > Either add a filter like "a/md*/" or add "md_component_detection = 1" to the > devices section of the lvm.conf file - if you're running a recent lvm2 > userspace. > > -- > > patrick > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ > _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
