Hello all,
I converted couple of md partitions to pvs. The reason for this was to remove
unnecessary md layer (raid0) and to replace it with striped lvs.
When I had stopped the md and edited the partition types in the partition
tables (and rebooted) I tried to pvcreate those, but it told me that the
device was not found.
I found out that vgscan or pvscan (or whatever which creates the .cache file)
skipped those partitions because it thought they still are part of a md.
vgscan -vvv:
...
Getting size of /dev/hda3
Opened /dev/hda3
/dev/hda3: Skipping md component device
Closed /dev/hda3
...
and same for hdb3 also.
It seems that it founds MD_SB_MAGIC in those partitions
(lib/filters/filter-md.c, lines 54-62).
I have my system working now by hand editing the /etc/lvm/.cache and to never
vgscan again :). The pvcreate and all the rest works now.
The question is that how could I get rid of those md signatures? pvcreate
obviously didn't do it, because it complained them in the first place. Of
course, I could have wiped the whole partitions with zeros in the beginning
(a long time), but now I already have a vg and several lvs and filesystems
there. Maybe I should write the filesystems full temporarily? Would that even
help?
lvm tools version used is 2.00.15, kernel 2.6.7 and the system is fedora 2.
-Mika
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