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From: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>,
	Gang He <ghe@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Can't work normally after attaching disk volumes originally in a VG on another machine
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:32:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d5323b7-73e7-0112-8e94-58613abe783a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ABA4D6D020000F9000B1E44@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

Dne 27.3.2018 v 07:55 Gang He napsal(a):
> 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


Ahh, so welcome Eric's replacement  :)

Yes - this use scenario was improper usage of lvm2 - and lvm2 has cached the 
user before he could ruing his data any further...


Regards


Zdenek

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-27  8:32 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
2018-03-27  8:32         ` Zdenek Kabelac [this message]
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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