The problem appeared after I've had a problem with this controller: 0000:00:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD Technology Inc) PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02) I've added two more disks to this controller and to the volume group and messages similar to this: Oct 26 20:28:21 serv0 kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x7f { DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete DataRequest CorrectedError Index Error } Oct 26 20:28:21 serv0 kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x00 { } Oct 26 20:28:21 serv0 kernel: hda: DMA disabled Oct 26 20:28:21 serv0 kernel: hdb: DMA disabled Oct 26 20:28:21 serv0 kernel: ide0: reset: success began to appiear in the logs. I've tried removing the new disks but this LV became invincible. The machine is running Debian sarge. Details follow: serv0:/# dpkg -s lvm2 |grep Version Version: 2.01.04-5 serv0:/# uname -a Linux serv0 2.6.8-2-k7 #1 Thu May 19 18:03:29 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux serv0:/# lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/s0_data/data VG Name s0_data LV UUID Wzs9Lu-5IUj-DK88-UVnZ-QJpj-gHuD-3a01jq LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 1.02 TB Current LE 4164 Segments 23 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/s0_data/pvmove0 VG Name s0_data LV UUID H8As4Y-m61V-krSa-lGTd-pNRh-Ef1e-UStXSC LV Write Access read/write LV Status NOT available LV Size 46.50 GB Current LE 186 Segments 1 Allocation contiguous Read ahead sectors 0 serv0:/# lvremove -v -f -d /dev/s0_data/pvmove0 Using logical volume(s) on command line Can't remove locked LV pvmove0 serv0:/# pvmove --abort -v Finding all volume groups Finding volume group "s0_data" serv0:/# lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/s0_data/data VG Name s0_data LV UUID Wzs9Lu-5IUj-DK88-UVnZ-QJpj-gHuD-3a01jq LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 1.02 TB Current LE 4164 Segments 23 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 254:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/s0_data/pvmove0 VG Name s0_data LV UUID H8As4Y-m61V-krSa-lGTd-pNRh-Ef1e-UStXSC LV Write Access read/write LV Status NOT available LV Size 46.50 GB Current LE 186 Segments 1 Allocation contiguous Read ahead sectors 0 serv0:/# Additionally the pvmove process was killed several times by the OOM killer, since in my opinion it was leaking memory. The PVs are 50 GBs each, and at some time at over 90 % the pvmove process was eating all the memory(512 MBs). Surprisingly after trying to resume some minutes later I've found the move had completed successfully. Cheers, Delian _______________________________________________ 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/