When I run the command "vgcfgrestore -l <volume group name> " it will show a history of backed up metadata files along with LVM commands executed right after the file backups, like this: ######## [root@localhost ~]# vgcfgrestore -l vg_vctst ...(ignored)... File: /etc/lvm/archive/vg_vctst_00010-1903466144.vg VG name: vg_vctst Description: Created *before* executing 'lvcreate -L 102400 -n lv_g1h9 vg_vctst -R 1 -m1 /dev/md0:0-3199 /dev/mapper/mpathbp1:0-3199 /dev/sda14:0' Backup Time: Tue Oct 15 16:29:19 2013 File: /etc/lvm/archive/vg_vctst_00011-623451285.vg VG name: vg_vctst Description: Created *before* executing 'lvconvert --config devices{ignore_suspended_devices=1} --repair --use-policies vg_vctst/lv_g1h9' Backup Time: Tue Oct 15 16:35:54 2013 File: /etc/lvm/archive/vg_vctst_00012-1423052792.vg VG name: vg_vctst Description: Created *before* executing 'vgs --noheadings' Backup Time: Tue Oct 15 16:36:19 2013 ...(ignored)... ######## But I didn't manually run the command "lvconvert --config devices{ignore_suspended_devices=1} --repair ..." neither put the command in some shell script files IIUC, so how the command gets run? Is the command "lvconvert --config devices{ignore_suspended_devices=1} --repair ..." run by LVM itself? If so, what is the condition that drives LVM to run that command? (in fact, I don't want the command to be run, because it seems destroy the mirror log and metadata in my system and I can't find a doc explaining about "--config") ... any idea? Justin _______________________________________________ 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/