From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <401BB8A5.8070409@grayskies.net> From: David Powers MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] duplicate PV error with 2.6.1 and lvm2 - resolved References: <401A8C6C.3040108@grayskies.net> <20040130170639.GC13019@percy.comedia.it> In-Reply-To: <20040130170639.GC13019@percy.comedia.it> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sat Jan 31 09:17:01 2004 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com That worked like a charm - thank you very much. I added: devices { filter=["r|sd[a-z]|"] } to /etc/lvm/lvm.conf (to ignore /dev/sda and /dev/sdb) and everything else fell into place. -David Powers Luca Berra wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:55:08AM -0500, David Powers wrote: > >> I am attempting to create a simple volume on a soft raid 1 device >> (/dev/md1) on a gentoo linux box running 2.6.1. The pvcreate seems >> to go fine but when I then attempt to create the volume group I get >> an odd error about duplicate PV's. It seems as if the code is >> sometimes treating the device as a single device and sometimes seeing >> the underlying disks. Any help would be appreciated. >> > either modify /etc/lvm/lvm.conf in order to ignore the devices that are > part of your md array or look at the patch i posted to this list under > the subject: "[patch] lvm2 and md component devices" > > L. >