Hello again all, I didn't get an answer here, but I thought that for posterity I should post what I hope is a potential solution. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:32:30PM -0700, Keith Keller wrote: > > I have been looking everywhere for a good answer to this issue, with no > success (including searching this list's archives); I hope that coming > directly to the source will help. > > I made a mistake in removing physical media from a hot-swap drive bay > before telling LVM I was going to remove it. I don't actually care > about the data on those disks at all--it was an old test volume that I > hadn't even had mounted for over a year. But now, when I do any lvm > commands, I get an error like so: > > # pvdisplay > /dev/testVG/testLV: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error > > and an error like this in the logs: > > scsi 1:0:2:0: rejecting I/O to dead device I was able to clear the error on a test machine, without destroying any (simulated) ''important'' data, using dmsetup: dmsetup remove testVG-testLV Does that seem like a reasonable course of action? --keith -- kkeller@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
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