On Tue, Feb 14, 2006, Luca Berra wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:19:46AM +0000, Gunther Clasen wrote: > > > >Curiously, these 4 partitions had all been used in a software-RAID > >volume. So I reckon that lvm somehow picked up the metadata of the > >MD-device and refused to work. > > this is documented in the manpage for lvm.conf > > - snip - > md_component_detection (If set to 1, LVM2 will ignore devices > used as components of software RAID (md) devices by looking for > md superblocks. This doesn't always work satisfactorily e.g. if > a device has been reused without wiping the md superblocks > first. > - end snip - On Tue, Feb 14, 2006, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > Not a good version to use. > The md/partition detection was improved in 2.00.32. Thank you for your help! So it is a squashed bug... ;-) I must admit that I hadn't read man lvm.conf, although it hadn't helped: above snip is not included in my version of it. :-( Anyway, seems to work fine now... Gunther P.S.: Would have liked to use SuSE 10.0 instead of 9.2, but with support for my modem broken, it's a non-starter :-((( _______________________________________________ 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/
