On 10/20/2017 11:06 PM, Gionatan Danti wrote: > Il 19-10-2017 13:45 Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth ha scritto: >> On 10/17/2017 03:45 PM, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote: >>> I just tested lv activation with a degraded raid1 thin pool. >>> Unfortunately it looks like activation mode=degraded only works for >>> plain raid1 lvs. If you add a thin pool, lvm won't activate it in >>> degraded mode. (Unless you specify --activationmode partial, which is >>> IMHO rather dangerous.) >> >> Unfortunately I cannot even replace a faulty PV if a thin pool is >> present. > > From you command history, I can see you are trying to remove the failed > device (to re-add a good device later). > Instead, can you try with lvconvert --repair or lvconvert --replace? Do > they works? lvconvert --repair doesn't work because there is also a linear LV ("boot") on this VG, which already has the error target assigned instead of the missing PV: -------------------- 8< -------------------- # lvconvert --repair /dev/vg_test/boot /dev/vdd WARNING: Disabling lvmetad cache for repair command. WARNING: Not using lvmetad because of repair. Couldn't find device with uuid 5ORr1v-kn3T-ROJW-quEg-0Lp5-3kdX-M3jr8S. Attempt to replace failed RAID images (requires full device resync)? [y/n]: y vg_test/boot has components with error targets that must be removed first: vg_test/boot_rimage_1. Try removing the PV list and rerun. the command. Failed to remove the specified images from vg_test/boot. Failed to replace faulty devices in vg_test/boot. -------------------- 8< -------------------- (But removing the missing PV doesn't work because of the Thin volume which is considered as partial as described previously.) lvconvert --replace also refuses to process bcause of the missing PV: -------------------- 8< -------------------- # lvconvert --replace 5ORr1v-kn3T-ROJW-quEg-0Lp5-3kdX-M3jr8S vg_test/Thin_tdata /dev/vdd Couldn't find device with uuid 5ORr1v-kn3T-ROJW-quEg-0Lp5-3kdX-M3jr8S. Cannot change VG vg_test while PVs are missing. Consider vgreduce --removemissing. Cannot process volume group vg_test -------------------- 8< -------------------- --leo -- e-mail ::: Leo.Bergolth (at) wu.ac.at fax ::: +43-1-31336-906050 location ::: IT-Services | Vienna University of Economics | Austria _______________________________________________ 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/