On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:15:10PM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > > Just a question out of curiosity, what does "VG data differs..." > > mean, > > LVM2 checks its metadata is consistent on disk every time you access a > VG. LVM1 caches its metadata and has less-stringent checks. > > That message means it found an anomaly that it couldn't fix - the > metadata on 3 of your devices formed a consistent VG after you > restored the backup, but the metadata on the 4th device hdf3 still > said it was part of the VG. > > Filtering tells LVM2 to ignore hdf3 completely, then pvremove hdf3 > wipes LVM metadata from it. Nice system, this LVM. Easy to use, very stable, fool proof. I love it! Thanks a lot for the clean explanation and the help with getting my VG back online. You don't know how happy I am with the positive outcome of this accident :-) cheers! Jelle _______________________________________________ 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/
