[linux-lvm] Upgrade path from 0.8i to 0.9?

[linux-lvm] Upgrade path from 0.8i to 0.9?

[Torsten Landschoff]

Hi *, 

We are planning to upgrade a production server tomorrow. As we have to 
build a new kernel anyway I would like to upgrade the LVM code from 0.8i
to 0.9. 

I just tried the same thing on a test system and I was unable to get it
working. After installing the new kernel I installed the lvm Debian
package from sistina.com (which removed /etc/lvmtab and /etc/lvmtab.d)
and tried to reactivate the volumes. This is what I get: 

pulsar:~# vgscan -v
vgscan -- removing "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"
vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
vgscan -- scanning for all active volume group(s) first
vgscan -- found inactive volume group "test"
vgscan -- reading data of volume group "test" from physical volume(s)
vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" can't get data of volume group "test" from physical volume(s)
vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" creating "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d"

Is there a way to upgrade to LVM 0.9 or should I just reapply the old LVM 0.8i
patches to 2.2.18 (which works fine)?

Thanks

	Torsten

Re: [linux-lvm] Upgrade path from 0.8i to 0.9?

[Russell Coker]

On Saturday 16 December 2000 18:48, Torsten Landschoff wrote:
> We are planning to upgrade a production server tomorrow. As we have to
> build a new kernel anyway I would like to upgrade the LVM code from 0.8i
> to 0.9.
>
> I just tried the same thing on a test system and I was unable to get it
> working. After installing the new kernel I installed the lvm Debian
> package from sistina.com (which removed /etc/lvmtab and /etc/lvmtab.d)
> and tried to reactivate the volumes. This is what I get:

I should have this sort of thing working cleanly from the Debian packaging 
part within 2 weeks.  This includes having /etc/lvmtab and /etc/lvmtab.d 
owned by the lvm-common package which won't need to be upgraded (except for 
when man pages change).  Also upgrading lvm-common won't trash things because 
they will be registered as conffiles.

Please try out my test packages of 0.8.1 on http://www.coker.com.au/lvm/ on a 
test machine (NOT A PRODUCTION SERVER) and let me know how they go.

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