from my experience, this doesn't help, it seems that pvscan, vgscan
doesn't recognize whole device as lvm capable device and then remove it
from .cache (so your vg seems to disappear but if you manually put your
device in .cache, it fixes everything)
see output for exemple :
pitch:/etc/lvm# pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/hdc vg0 lvm2 a- 19.11G 19.11G
/dev/hdd vg0 lvm2 a- 149.05G 4.05G
pitch:/etc/lvm#
pitch:/etc/lvm#
pitch:/etc/lvm# pvscan
Couldn't find device with uuid 'iZzizb-LmBD-0wx1-QD3g-76aO-1zJI-d61tNs'.
PV unknown device VG vg0 lvm2 [149.05 GB / 4.05 GB free]
PV /dev/hdc VG vg0 lvm2 [19.11 GB / 19.11 GB free]
Total: 2 [168.16 GB] / in use: 2 [168.16 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
pitch:/etc/lvm# pvs
Couldn't find device with uuid 'iZzizb-LmBD-0wx1-QD3g-76aO-1zJI-d61tNs'.
Couldn't find device with uuid 'iZzizb-LmBD-0wx1-QD3g-76aO-1zJI-d61tNs'.
Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group vg0.
Can't read vg0: skipping
Couldn't find device with uuid 'iZzizb-LmBD-0wx1-QD3g-76aO-1zJI-d61tNs'.
Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group vg0.
Can't read vg0: skipping
note that it doesn't happen on both disks, but they were set up identically.
see also this output, pvdisplay on the faulty device seems to fix it :
pitch:/etc/lvm# vgdisplay
Couldn't find device with uuid 'iZzizb-LmBD-0wx1-QD3g-76aO-1zJI-d61tNs'.
Couldn't find all physical volumes for volume group vg0.
Volume group "vg0" doesn't exist
pitch:/etc/lvm# pvdisplay
Couldn't find device with uuid 'iZzizb-LmBD-0wx1-QD3g-76aO-1zJI-d61tNs'.
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name unknown device
VG Name vg0
PV Size 149.05 GB / not usable 0
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 38156
Free PE 1036
Allocated PE 37120
PV UUID iZzizb-LmBD-0wx1-QD3g-76aO-1zJI-d61tNs
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/hdc
VG Name vg0
PV Size 19.11 GB / not usable 0
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 4892
Free PE 4892
Allocated PE 0
PV UUID vzCHIG-WqYt-w2Kv-qGog-vK74-GEBu-svsWBm
pitch:/etc/lvm# pvdisplay /dev/hdd
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/hdd
VG Name vg0
PV Size 149.05 GB / not usable 0
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 38156
Free PE 1036
Allocated PE 37120
PV UUID iZzizb-LmBD-0wx1-QD3g-76aO-1zJI-d61tNs
pitch:/etc/lvm#
pitch:/etc/lvm# pvdisplay
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/hdd
VG Name vg0
PV Size 149.05 GB / not usable 0
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 38156
Free PE 1036
Allocated PE 37120
PV UUID iZzizb-LmBD-0wx1-QD3g-76aO-1zJI-d61tNs
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/hdc
VG Name vg0
PV Size 19.11 GB / not usable 0
Allocatable yes
PE Size (KByte) 4096
Total PE 4892
Free PE 4892
Allocated PE 0
PV UUID vzCHIG-WqYt-w2Kv-qGog-vK74-GEBu-svsWBm
pitch:/etc/lvm# vgs
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
vg0 2 1 0 wz--n 168.16G 23.16G
so for me at least, the best practice for now is to set a partition on
the whole disk (hdd1) set its type '8e' and use it instead of the whole
device. I didnt have any problem working like this.
fyi: debian sarge with :
pitch:~# vgscan --version
LVM version: 2.01.04 (2005-02-09)
Library version: 1.01.00-ioctl (2005-01-17)
Driver version: 4.1.1
Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
No - I'm suggesting you need to check if any *whole device* PVs like hdd
actually have partition tables on them, and if so, remove them.
Alasdair
_______________________________________________
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/
