On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 10:44:54AM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
So this basically means, that LVM was set up on /dev/sda2 some time
ago, but it was never removed from there - instead, RAID-10 was set up
on that partition?
I don't think so. if sda2 is part of a raid10 md array probably the
beginning sector of the md device maps to the beginning sector of the
real device, hence lvm will find an lvm signature on /dev/sda2.
Is there a way to check if it's really the case?
dd?
There's something wrong with /dev/sda2 - lvmdiskscan claims it's a
371.58 GB LVM physical volume, while /dev/md2 is the physical volume I use.
/dev/sda2 [ 371.58 GB] LVM physical volume
/dev/md2 [ 743.16 GB] LVM physical volume
Should I do something to fix the things? What?
yes, re-enable md_component_detection in lvm.conf, why did you disable
that?
Certainly I didn't touch anything in /etc/lvm/*.
If I look into /etc/lvm/lvm.conf, it says:
devices {
(...)
# By default, LVM2 will ignore devices used as components of
# software RAID (md) devices by looking for md superblocks.
# 1 enables; 0 disables.
md_component_detection = 1
}
It's enabled.
So the problem is somewhere else. Where?
with md_component_detection enabled lvm should ignore /dev/sda2.
can you send the output of lvmdiskscan -vvv?
BTW, the machine is running Debian etch (ARM port).
mmm i don't have an arm maybe this is the issue why lvm does not
understand that sda2 is a md component?!?
"smartctl" says all four disks are fine (they are quite new, too), so
it's definitely not a hardware problem.
sure it is not an hw problem do not worry.
I guess one way to fix it would be mark all partitions faulty on
/dev/sda, and then, to recreate the RAIDs.
But I'm curious to know how could I handle such a situation if I didn't
have RAID.
what would it fix? you have no problem except lvm2 believing sda2 is an
lvm volume which is not.
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