From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Ed Tomlinson Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] safe to ru-run vgscan after mounting LV root? Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 07:34:00 -0500 References: <20010327161517.G993@tykepenguin.com> <20010329163815.A30619@mail.wave.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20010329163815.A30619@mail.wave.co.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032907340001.12064@oscar> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Wednesday 28 March 2001 23:38, you wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > You can run vgscan as many times as you like. The main reason you > > wouldn't is the time it can take. But even that is small compared to the > > initialisation time > > Thanks for the feedback. That's what I figured, but ... > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:01:50AM -0500, Jay Sissom wrote: > > Just a warning. When I run vgscan on my system, it deletes my LV. I > > still don't know why. There seems to be a terrible bug in vgscan. What release of the utilities/patch? I had this problem with beta2, which is what ships with the kernel. Upgrading to beta6 fixed it _here_. > ... this worries me. Me too... Here hoping that beta6 is the answer. > Could anyone else comment on this, please? Is Jay's problem bizzare > and irreproducable, or is there possibly a problem with replacing the > lvmtab files from beneath the noses of the other tools? Ed Tomlinson