From: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
To: Henk Kraal <h.kraal@exonet.nl>
Cc: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Failed to update old PV extension headers in VG
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:20:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200717162032.GA12965@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0B6E7FBE-CE2B-4A2F-8560-A47218C0B511@exonet.nl>
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 09:04:32AM +0200, Henk Kraal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I’ve run into an issue when trying to activate an LV which resides on a
> read-only loop device. When I run lvchange -a y <LV Path> I get the
> following error:
>
> Error writing device /dev/loop0p5 at 4096 length 512.
> bcache_invalidate: block (4, 0) still dirty
> Failed to write mda header to /dev/loop0p5 fd -1
> Failed to update old PV extension headers in VG recursor02-01-vg.
> Volume group "recursor02-01-vg" not found
> Cannot process volume group recursor02-01-vg
>
> I’ve observed this issue when using LVM version 2.03.02
> Is there a way I can prevent the update of the extension headers when
> activating the LV?
I don't think there's a way to tell that version to skip the header
update. A more recent verson of lvm should work, and let you use the PV
without updating the header. It will not attempt updates from commands
which are not otherwise updating lvm metadata.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-17 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-17 7:04 [linux-lvm] Failed to update old PV extension headers in VG Henk Kraal
2020-07-17 16:20 ` David Teigland [this message]
2020-07-18 14:28 ` Henk Kraal
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