Dear community, I had the following problem with my lvm raid: Jan 22 10:51:08 sky kernel: jfs_lookup: iget returned bad inode, inum = 249888 Jan 22 10:51:08 sky kernel: jfs_lookup: iget returned bad inode, inum = 229376 Jan 22 10:51:08 sky kernel: I/O error: dev 08:41, sector 40845696 Jan 22 10:51:08 sky kernel: I/O error: dev 08:41, sector 19874184 The LVM (LVM 1) consists of six SCSI disks, each one 36Gb size. I decided to reboot the machine and see what happens. The reboot was the first one since I configured the LVM a few _months_ ago. After the reboot the system can't bring the LVM back online and reports: [root]sky: ~>pvscan pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdb1" is associated to unknown VG "softraid" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdc1" is associated to unknown VG "softraid" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdd1" is associated to unknown VG "softraid" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sde1" is associated to unknown VG "softraid" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdf1" is associated to unknown VG "softraid" (run vgscan) pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/sdg1" is associated to unknown VG "softraid" (run vgscan) pvscan -- total: 6 [205.09 GB] / in use: 6 [205.09 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0] and [root]sky: ~>vgscan vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...) vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of volume group "softraid" from physical volume(s) vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group vgcfgrestore reported success, but no change to pvscan and vgscan . /dev/softraid/ disappeared after the reboot /etc/lvmconf/softraid exists and has size of 1375404 bytes . /etc/lvmtab and /etc/lvmtab.d are empty. I have valuable data on the raid I do not want to go through restoring from a backup again. Any advice how to recover and reconfigure the volume group? Thanks in advance, Roman. -- Roman M. Parparov - NASA EOSDIS project node at TAU technical manager. Email: romm@empire.tau.ac.il http://www.nasa.proj.ac.il/ Phone/Fax: +972-(0)3-6405205 (work), +972-(0)50-734-18-34 (home) _______________________________________________ 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/
