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
prev parent 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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