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From: John DeFranco <defranco@cup.hp.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] vgchange -an question with disconnected disks
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:55:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E3C351.30009@cup.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E3B6B5.5080409@utsouthwestern.edu>

Actually I was not asking this question in the context removing a disk. 
I was asking if you loose connectivity to a disk(s) unexpectitly.

Peter Smith wrote:
> John DeFranco wrote:
> 
>> I have a question regarding the behavior of vgchange -a n on lvm2 when 
>> there are disk failures. Specifically the following:
>>
>> 1. vgchange -a y vg00
>> 2. disconnect the disks
>> 3. vgchange -a n vg00
> 
> Are you doing this in the correct order?  Shouldn't you _de_activate the 
> VG _before_ removing the disks?  And besides, shouldn't you remove the 
> offending disks from the VG _before_ deactivating and then removing the 
> disks physically?  Or at least something equivalent.
> 
> 1.  vgreduce vg00 <offending disks>
> 2.  vgchange -a n vg00
> 3.  disconnect the disks
> 4.  vgchange -a y vg00
> 
> ...
> 
> Peter
> 
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-- 
===========
Cheers
-jd

      reply	other threads:[~2006-02-03 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-02 18:06 [linux-lvm] vgchange -an question with disconnected disks John DeFranco
2006-02-02 18:28 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-02-03 20:01 ` Peter Smith
2006-02-03 20:55   ` John DeFranco [this message]

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