From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kAO24Skc014093 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:04:28 -0500 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.232]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kAO24RPu001394 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:04:27 -0500 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s11so730771wxc for ; Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:04:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:04:26 +0800 From: "roderick tapang" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [linux-lvm] rhel4 u4 lvm2 changes 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 hi, i installed RHEL4 update 4 (2.6.9-42.ELsmp) on an HP BL45p (AMD64). i then added 4 EMC hosted disks on it: /dev/emcpowerb lx0060data00vg lvm2 a- 50.00G 24.00G /dev/emcpowerc lx0060data00vg lvm2 a- 50.00G 24.00G /dev/emcpowerd lx0060data00vg lvm2 a- 50.00G 24.00G /dev/emcpowere lx0060data00vg lvm2 a- 50.00G 24.00G i've create a couple of ext3 FS on this VG (LV striped across the disks). everytime i restart the system, i end up with the file system repair prompt - the tw FS can't be mounted as the PVs can't be seen. i removed the entries in /etc/fstab. it appears that the PVs are not being activated automatically during reboot. i had to do a: lvmdiskcan vgchange lx0060data00vg -ay only then i can mount the FS. /dev/mapper/lx0060data00vg-lx0060lvdata00 99G 92M 94G 1% /staging /dev/mapper/lx0060data00vg-lx0060lvdata01 4.0G 1.9G 1.9G 51% /apps i have 6 other similar blade systems with EMC disks allocated the same way and they are all running RHEL4 update 3. but i never had this kind of issue. are there any changes in the LVM2 activation during bootup in update4? i didn't find anything related to this in the release notes of update4 so i was hoping that someone could enlighten me on this. :) many thanks. erik -- roderick e. tapang, nclp retapang at gmail dot com (o_.' http://counter.li.org/ //\ ---------------------- V_/_ Linux User # 253842