From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3BBA3323.E271B5A8@legis.state.ak.us> Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 13:35:31 -0800 From: Bill Ellis MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------A86862A27E695A5B6C17C886" Subject: [linux-lvm] pvcreate fails on a software RAID meta-disk 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: To: linux-lvm@sistina.com --------------A86862A27E695A5B6C17C886 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I'm running into a weird problem with pvcreate. It doesn't seem to want to let me use a software RAID metadisk as a PV. Here's what I get: > root@tik-tok:~# pvcreate /dev/md7 > pvcreate -- ERROR "parameter error" setting up physical volume "/dev/md7" > > root@tik-tok:~# pvcreate -v /dev/md7 > pvcreate -- locking logical volume manager > pvcreate -- checking physical volume name "/dev/md7" > pvcreate -- getting physical volume size > pvcreate -- checking partition type > pvcreate -- creating new physical volume > pvcreate -- setting up physical volume for /dev/md7 with 0 sectors > pvcreate -- ERROR "parameter error" setting up physical volume "/dev/md7" > > root@tik-tok:~# pvcreate --version > pvcreate: Logical Volume Manager 1.0.1-rc3 > Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software 01/10/2001 (IOP 10) > I'm running a 2.4.10 kernel, patched with the lvm 1.0.1rc3 patch... (and my own quick fix for the '__update_hardsectsize' vs. '__update_hardblocksize' issue). So: this (software RAID metadisks as lvm PVs) *is* supposed to work, right? Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? Thanks In Advance, Bill Ellis --------------A86862A27E695A5B6C17C886 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi,

I'm running into a weird problem with pvcreate.  It doesn't seem to want to let me use a software RAID metadisk as a PV.  Here's what I get:
  

root@tik-tok:~# pvcreate /dev/md7
pvcreate -- ERROR "parameter error" setting up  physical volume "/dev/md7"

root@tik-tok:~# pvcreate -v /dev/md7
pvcreate -- locking logical volume manager
pvcreate -- checking physical volume name "/dev/md7"
pvcreate -- getting physical volume size
pvcreate -- checking partition type
pvcreate -- creating new physical volume
pvcreate -- setting up physical volume for /dev/md7 with 0 sectors
pvcreate -- ERROR "parameter error" setting up  physical volume "/dev/md7"

root@tik-tok:~# pvcreate --version
pvcreate: Logical Volume Manager 1.0.1-rc3
Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software  01/10/2001 (IOP 10)


I'm running a 2.4.10 kernel, patched with the lvm 1.0.1rc3 patch...
(and my own quick fix for the '__update_hardsectsize' vs. '__update_hardblocksize' issue).

So:  this (software RAID metadisks as lvm PVs) *is* supposed to work, right?

Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks In Advance,
Bill Ellis
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