From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx2.redhat.com (mx2.redhat.com [10.255.15.25]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l1FBondc024493 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:50:49 -0500 Received: from mail2.syneticon.net (mail.syneticon.net [213.239.212.131]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l1FBol6o027134 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:50:47 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DA0F540BE for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:50:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail2.syneticon.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (linux [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11579-18 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:50:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from postfix1.syneticon.net (postfix1.syneticon.net [192.168.112.6]) by mail2.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:50:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (filter1.syneticon.net [192.168.113.3]) by postfix1.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D036694AF for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:50:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from postfix1.syneticon.net ([192.168.113.4]) by localhost (192.168.113.3 [192.168.113.3]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with ESMTP id FISh26VPAHKO for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:50:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from [81.173.141.96] (xdsl-81-173-141-96.netcologne.de [81.173.141.96]) by postfix1.syneticon.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:50:15 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45D448F5.3000301@wpkg.org> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:50:13 +0100 From: Tomasz Chmielewski MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] vgdisplay - checksum error - what does it mean? Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com Recently, I used "vgdisplay", and noticed that it gives a "checksum error": # vgdisplay /dev/sda2: Checksum error --- Volume group --- VG Name LVM2 System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 49 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 34 Open LV 34 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 743.16 GB PE Size 4.00 MB Total PE 190250 Alloc PE / Size 175807 / 686.75 GB Free PE / Size 14443 / 56.42 GB VG UUID yV2ADe-MeJd-dHbd-ExLP-AIu3-OTA2-u46qhl Should I be scared? What does it mean? What should I do about it? I wouldn't like to loose the data. If it helps, my setup looks like that: HDD1-sda2-\ HDD2-sdb2-|__RAID-10--LVM-2 HDD3-sdc2-| HDD4-sdd2-/ I'm running 2.6.17.8 kernel. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org