Riches Jr, RobertX M [robertx.m.riches.jr@intel.com] wrote: > An exit code of 5 appears to indicate excessive numbers of VGs. However, > there are no other VGs on the system prior to this call to vgcreate. > Search engine results indicate the PV might be corrupt. However, the PV > was just created a few milliseconds before calling vgcreate. > > When calling vgcreate immediately after calling pvcreate, is there a need > to wait for some after-effects of the pvcreate to settle out? Is there > some command to positively determine whether the PV is actually ready and > open for business? I am not aware of any such issue, but you can run "pvs" and find out if your newly created PV is listed in the output. > Any other suggestions? If you can create a test script that creates two PV's out of two loop mounted temporary files and re-create your bug, then someone in the dm-devel forum would surely help. Thanks, Malahal. _______________________________________________ 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/