From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <512F5A51.3000909@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:23:29 +0100 From: Marian Csontos MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <0926B8B0C4D4424CAE1FCE69BD50CB2F0854C4EC@s02008.neopost.grp> <20130227181236.GG1514@agk.fab.redhat.com> <0926B8B0C4D4424CAE1FCE69BD50CB2F0854C76E@s02008.neopost.grp> In-Reply-To: <0926B8B0C4D4424CAE1FCE69BD50CB2F0854C76E@s02008.neopost.grp> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] raid1 Failed to activate new LV 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: LVM general discussion and development Cc: MOLLE Thomas On 02/28/2013 10:32 AM, MOLLE Thomas wrote: > kernel: lvcreate: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! > kernel: device-mapper: table: 252:8: raid: Unrecognised raid_type > kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table Hi, looking at RHEL6.3 kernel code there must be a corruption or incompatibility somewhere between command line and kernel and raid1 should definitely be recognized. Could you first try running the `lvcreate` command with `-vvvv`, please? I see the lvm2 package is fairly recent. What about kernel? What do `uname -a` and `dmsetup targets` say? -- Marian > > I do not understand why the type is not recognized > >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 05:45:02PM +0100, MOLLE Thomas wrote: >> # device-mapper: reload ioctl on failed: Invalid argument # Failed to >> activate new LV. >> >> Look in your kernel message log for a more detailed error message. >> >> Alasdair > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ >