Jayson Vantuyl wrote: > Hello, > > We have been using Coraid's ATA-Over-Ethernet shelves for a while with > much success. > > Recently, we added a second shelf (numbered 1) to our first shelf > (numbered 0). CLVM has been running on the old shelf perfectly fine. > > As soon as I added the second shelf, attempting to lvcreate a new lv > utilizing the new disks generated roughly the following errors: > > Error locking on node ey00-02: Internal lvm error, check syslog > Error locking on node ey00-05: Internal lvm error, check syslog > Error locking on node ey00-01: Internal lvm error, check syslog > Error locking on node ey00-00: Internal lvm error, check syslog > Error locking on node ey00-04: Internal lvm error, check syslog > Error locking on node ey00-03: Internal lvm error, check syslog > Failed to activate new LV. > > All of the nodes show the following errors in syslog: > > Feb 7 06:09:36 ey00-00 lvm[4869]: Couldn't find all physical volumes > for volume group ey00-data. > Feb 7 06:09:37 ey00-00 lvm[4869]: Couldn't find device with uuid > '0Cot9Z-BHjK-2Nkw-eEdy-fbFF-Wh1q-qhRaut'. > Feb 7 06:09:37 ey00-00 lvm[4869]: Couldn't find all physical volumes > for volume group ey00-data. > Feb 7 06:09:37 ey00-00 lvm[4869]: Couldn't find device with uuid > '0Cot9Z-BHjK-2Nkw-eEdy-fbFF-Wh1q-qhRaut'. > Feb 7 06:09:37 ey00-00 lvm[4869]: Couldn't find all physical volumes > for volume group ey00-data. > Feb 7 06:09:37 ey00-00 lvm[4869]: Couldn't find device with uuid > '0Cot9Z-BHjK-2Nkw-eEdy-fbFF-Wh1q-qhRaut'. > Feb 7 06:09:37 ey00-00 lvm[4869]: Couldn't find all physical volumes > for volume group ey00-data. > Feb 7 06:09:37 ey00-00 lvm[4869]: Couldn't find device with uuid > '0Cot9Z-BHjK-2Nkw-eEdy-fbFF-Wh1q-qhRaut'. > Feb 7 06:09:37 ey00-00 lvm[4869]: Couldn't find all physical volumes > for volume group ey00-data. > Feb 7 06:09:37 ey00-00 lvm[4869]: Volume group for uuid not found: > WWbD8SXOsAJzDYRCFQiciQho84Rl99nVF7QbO0ArRxnH4cZeKgzG0Nx4gbEhgALU > > Inspecting the lvm.conf shows that these devices are the new ones that > were added. > > Even more bizarre, pvscan finds them just fine on all nodes. > > The only thing I can note about these devices that is particularly > different is that they appear to be using minor numbers above 256. Note > this ls output: > > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 152, 288 Feb 7 04:43 /dev/etherd/e1.2 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 152, 289 Feb 7 06:10 /dev/etherd/e1.2p1 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 152, 304 Feb 7 04:44 /dev/etherd/e1.3 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 152, 305 Feb 7 06:10 /dev/etherd/e1.3p1 > > Is there a known problem with LVM or CLVM related to large device minor > numbers? Did you restart clvmd after adding the new disks? There is a bug where it doesn't always recognise new hardware. -- patrick _______________________________________________ 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/
