Hi
I'm a beginner with LVM2. I run Gentoo Linux with a LV consisting och 5
physical drives. I use LVM2 as it's installed so i guess it's not striped.
It started out with read problems of the drive at certain times, it took a
long time to access files. I then used smartctl to test the drive and it
reported a failure.
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail
s - 1453
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 148 148 021 Pre-fail
s - 7591
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
ys - 38
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 126 126 140 Pre-fail Always
FAILING_NOW 591
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000e 200 200 051 Old_age
ys - 0
....
...
I shut down the whole system and bought a new drive and added to the VG.
When the failed drive is cold it's regognized by LVM when i boot, but if it
gets warm it's not even recognized. a pvs results in this
# pvs
/dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/sdc1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/block/253:0: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 500103577600:
Input/output error
/dev/block/253:0: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 500103634944:
Input/output error
/dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 500107771904: Input/output error
/dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 500107853824: Input/output error
/dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output error
/dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/sdc1: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 500105150464: Input/output error
/dev/sdc1: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 500105207808: Input/output error
/dev/sdc1: read failed after 0 of 1024 at 0: Input/output error
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/hda1 vgftp lvm2 a- 74.51G 0
/dev/hda2 vgftp lvm2 a- 74.51G 0
/dev/hda3 vgftp lvm2 a- 74.51G 0
/dev/hda4 vgftp lvm2 a- 74.55G 0
/dev/hdb1 vgftp lvm2 a- 74.51G 0
/dev/hdb2 vgftp lvm2 a- 74.51G 0
/dev/hdb3 vgftp lvm2 a- 74.51G 0
/dev/hdb4 vgftp lvm2 a- 74.55G 0
/dev/sdb1 vgftp lvm2 a- 931.51G 0
/dev/sdc1 vgftp lvm2 a- 465.76G 0
/dev/sdd1 vgftp lvm2 a- 931.51G 0
/dev/sde1 vgftp lvm2 a- 1.36T 931.50G
I want to do a pvmove from the old drive to my newly added drive, but as
soon as i do that i get the same error as when i do the pvs command. Maybe I
will try to freeze my drive if nothing else works. Is there a way to force
pvmove or somethin similiar? I really would like to rescue as much data as
possible from the failed drive.
If it's not possible to rescue anything from the drive. How should i proceed
for best results regarding the rest of the drives? Will i still be able to
access the files on the other drives?
How do i remove the failed drive in a good maner? pvremove? vgreduce?
I couldn't seem to find any info on how to best remove a failed drive with
an accepted data loss.
thanks
/Fredrik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Milan Broz" <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: "LVM general discussion and development" <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: Question on compatibility with 2.6.31 kernel.
Ben Greear wrote:
I recently tried to boot 2.6.31 on Fedora 8, and it couldn't
find the volume groups. The same kernel works fine on F11.
try to recompile kernel with
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=y
(old lvm will not understand new sysfs design, this should
provide old sysfs entries)
Someone on LKML said they had similar problems on an old Debian Etch
system and to fix it they installed a new version of lvm2 and put
that in the initrd.
yes, this is another option, new lvm2 (I think >2.02.29) should work.
But note that also device-mapper library must be updated.
Milan
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