From: Thomas Bader <thomasb@trash.net>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LV not available
Date: Fri Dec 27 15:27:02 2002 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021227212753.GA16624@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212271404030.23297-100000@junior.lunanet.biz>
* Donald Thompson <dlt@lunanet.biz> [021227 22:12]:
> AFAIK, the PV should never become unavailable unless you specifically set
> it this way or it truly is unavailable, ie. the disk went bad.
The disk is not bad. /dev/md/4 shares the same disks with
/dev/md/3:
-->-->-->--
fullmoon:~# pvdisplay /dev/md/3
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/md/3
VG Name vg00
PV Size 57.22 GB [120005248 secs] / NOT usable 16.18 MB [LVM: 138 KB]
PV# 2
PV Status available
Allocatable yes (but full)
Cur LV 2
PE Size (KByte) 16384
Total PE 3661
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 3661
PV UUID 3CN6dg-poaj-F5BZ-FbeM-DmWo-K6S2-0RqJmV
fullmoon:~# pvdisplay /dev/md/4
--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/md/4
VG Name vg00
PV Size 57.81 GB [121242368 secs] / NOT usable 16.18 MB [LVM: 138 KB]
PV# 3
PV Status NOT available
Allocatable yes (but full)
Cur LV 1
PE Size (KByte) 16384
Total PE 3699
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 3699
PV UUID nyoJQM-GYcF-wzWK-H80y-5bgs-UHIs-VhINj6
--<--<--<--
Only /dev/md/4 is unavailable.
According to mtab, there's no error in the RAID arrays:
-->-->-->--
fullmoon:~# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid5]
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1[1] ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1[0]
5632064 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md1 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part2[1] ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2[0]
671744 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md2 : active raid1 ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part3[1] ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3[0]
33717504 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md3 : active raid1 ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/part1[1] ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1[0]
60002624 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md4 : active raid1 ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0/part2[1] ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part2[0]
60621184 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
--<--<--<--
> Try 'pvchange -a -x y' to see if you can set it available.
-->-->-->--
fullmoon:~# pvchange -a -x y
pvchange -- unable to find volume group of "/dev/md/0" (VG not active?)
pvchange -- unable to find volume group of "/dev/md/2" (VG not active?)
pvchange -- unable to find volume group of "/dev/md/3" (VG not active?)
pvchange -- unable to find volume group of "/dev/md/4" (VG not active?)
pvchange -- 0 physical volumes changed / 0 physical volumes already o.k.
--<--<--<--
> Does 'pvscan' pick > it up?
Yes:
-->-->-->--
fullmoon:~# pvscan
pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/md/0" is associated to unknown VG "vg00" (run vgscan)
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/md/2" is associated to unknown VG "vg00" (run vgscan)
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/md/3" is associated to unknown VG "vg00" (run vgscan)
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/md/4" is associated to unknown VG "vg00" (run vgscan)
pvscan -- total: 4 [185.36 GB] / in use: 4 [185.36 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]
--<--<--<--
> I'm not real familiar with linux software raid, but did you check
> to make sure the array is alright?
It is, since it's marked with [UU] in mdstat.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-27 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-27 7:56 [linux-lvm] LV not available Thomas Bader
2002-12-27 15:12 ` Donald Thompson
2002-12-27 15:27 ` Thomas Bader [this message]
2002-12-27 16:17 ` Thomas Bader
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