Slava, the main problem I had was that LVM forbade many operations while I had a PV missing. In your case, apparently, all PVs are present. So I suggest the following: 1. examine the recent history in /etc/lvm/archive 2. diff each transition and see if you can understand what has happened at each stage 3. vgcfgrestore the most recent version that you think will allow you to activate your array, you can work backwards incrementally 4. check kernel logs! 5. scrub (resync) the array if needed Hope this helps, Giuliano. _______________________________________________ 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/