[linux-lvm] Recover LVM Volume Group when 2 physical disks removed

2017-10-31 Thread Traiano Welcome
Hi list I'm trying to recover an LVM volume group that has had 2 of it's PVs removed (these to PVs are beyond recovery). The original volume group had 6 physical disks, only 4 remain now. The missing PVs are the P0 and P1 in the set :-( Is it possible to either: a) Re-constitute the

[linux-lvm] Does cmirror can tolerate one faulty PV?

2017-10-31 Thread Eric Ren
Hi all, I performed a fault tolerance testing on cmirrored LV in cluster with lvm2-2.02.98. The result really surprises me: a cmirrored LV cannot continue to work after disabling its one leg PV. Is this a known issue? Or am I doing something wrong? The steps follows: # clvmd and cmirrord s

[linux-lvm] 答复: [dm-devel] dmsetup hangs forever

2017-10-31 Thread Zhangyanfei (YF)
Hello If the udevd daemon would not timeout, I think dmsetup mandatory wait udev finalizing any timeouts is good idea. But udevd would timeout in 180 sencond and kill the event process( systemd-udevd[39029]: timeout: killing). In this situation, I think mandatory wait udev finalizing is useless

Re: [linux-lvm] When and why vgs command can change metadata and incur old metadata to be backed up?

2017-10-31 Thread Eric Ren
Hi all, > > Interesting. Eric, can you show the *before* and *after* vgs textual > metadata (you should find them in /etc/lvm/archive)? > Ah, I think no need to show the archives now. Alasdair and David have given us a very good explanation, thanks for them! Regards, Eric