-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alasdair G Kergon wrote: > > I should add that what you should do is extract the metadata you've > retrieved off disk directly into a file, fix it in the file > (differences in whitespace & comments don't matter) then use > vgcfgrestore -f. I tried that and it works - strange, I tried vgcfgrestore yesterday to no avail... But then I was using Ubuntu 5.10's lvm2 package as a rescue so apparently it's a different (and solved) issue. Thanks! Knowing this, and still for the record: after any LVM operation it seems wise to try a vgchange -a y *before* rebooting to see if everything went well. Reverting a pickled LVM situation is much easier with the original toolset handy (same LVM binary and metadata backups in /etc/lvm/) than using a rescue CD! I wrote, and you replied: >> * there should be a mechanism for dealing with corrupt LVM >> metadata, at the minimum a global command-line switch to >> temporarily disable checksum verifications. > > Nope. > I seem to have pushed your button, apologies for doing so. I was trying to be humorous, not disparaging: *of course* I concur that checksums are a good idea! I guess it means that humor is too slippery for us non-native speakers, oh well... - -- Dominique QUATRAVAUX Ingénieur senior 01 44 42 00 08 IDEALX -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEYu3XMJAKAU3mjcsRAugqAKC2KK88j/+w30xd6pxcn/5Juu7tuACdExXi R2b4HLcvmPmWHl+uxhbvGi0= =tWX0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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/
