From: "Gang He" <ghe@suse.com>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Can't work normally after attaching disk volumes originally in a VG on another machine
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 23:55:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ABA4D6D020000F9000B1E44@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD+pdNdPKmHb7BQfT4DUj2M+=yy1P3JYtXO4GjNRXn2QA_cwwA@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Fran,
>>>
> On 26 March 2018 at 08:04, Gang He <ghe@suse.com> wrote:
>> It looks like each PV includes a copy meta data for VG, but if some PV has
> changed (e.g. removed, or moved to another VG),
>> the remained PV should have a method to check the integrity when each
> startup (activated?), to avoid such inconsistent problem automatically.
>
> Your workflow is strange. What are you trying to accomplish here?
I just reproduced a problem from the customer, since they did virtual disk migration from one virtual machine to another one.
According to your comments, this does not look like a LVM code problem,
the problem can be considered as LVM administer misoperation?
Thanks
Gang
>
> Your steps in 5 should be:
>
> vgreduce vg01 /dev/vdc /dev/vdc
> pvremove /dev/vdc /dev/vdd
>
> That way you ensure there's no leftover metadata in the PVs (specially
> if you need to attach those disks to a different system)
>
> Again a usecase to understand your workflow would be beneficial...
>
> Cheers
>
> fran
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-27 5:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-23 8:30 [linux-lvm] Can't work normally after attaching disk volumes originally in a VG on another machine Gang He
2018-03-23 9:04 ` Xen
2018-03-26 6:04 ` Gang He
2018-03-26 10:17 ` Fran Garcia
2018-03-26 10:23 ` Fran Garcia
2018-03-27 5:55 ` Gang He [this message]
2018-03-27 8:32 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-28 2:09 ` Gang He
2018-03-27 9:12 ` Xen
2018-03-27 10:22 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-27 10:27 ` Xen
2018-03-27 22:17 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-03-28 10:08 ` Xen
2018-03-26 10:46 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2018-05-18 4:56 ` Gang He
2018-03-26 11:33 ` Xen
2018-10-16 20:59 ` [linux-lvm] [lvm-devel] " Nir Soffer
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