From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] PV Status NOT available Message-ID: <20030210143353.A5958@sistina.com> References: <000801c2d0e8$91e8d320$0d01a8c0@aphrodite> Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <000801c2d0e8$91e8d320$0d01a8c0@aphrodite>; from rupert.hair@ntlworld.com on Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:41:18AM -0000 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: Mon Feb 10 07:38:01 2003 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Rupert, do all 3 PVs show up active (the [] following 'PV:' should contain 'AA' unless you set a PV to inallocatable) in /proc/lvm/global ? if so pvdisplay (pv_status in the library respectively) doesn't seem to get the PV_ACTIVE status from the kernel correctly. On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:41:18AM -0000, Rupert Hair wrote: > Hi Everyone. > > I have a rather strange 'problem' with my LVM setup. I am using a very > standard install of Redhat 8.0 (Kernel 2.4.18-14smp (I guess the "-14smp" is > some Redhat version number.)) with LVM version 1.0.3(19/02/2002). I used > the Redhat installer to create a single VG (datavg) and LV (datalv) made up > of 3 PVs (hdd5 hdd6 hdd7 (Yes all three PVs are on the same disk as this is > just a test setup.)). This all went fine and the installer created an ext3 > filesystem on top of the LV. I have put some data on the filesystem and > rebooted a few times to test it out and everything works great. > > Now the 'problem': two of my PVs (hdd5 hdd7) have a status of "NOT > available" (reported by pvdisplay). This is very strange as the whole setup > seems to work fine and all three PVs are on the same disk (which is working > fine). I have attached various files which are the outputs of some of the > LVM utilities that seemed useful. > > I would be very grateful if anyone could shed any light on this problem and > what I have done wrong. > > Thanks. > Rupert -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-