<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi, I'm looking for some advice as to how to deal with this situation. A disk is pulled. Then vgreduce is used to take it out of the volume group. System is shut down. Disk is re-inserted. Now the system won't boot because "Recovery of volume group failed". This is because in the initramfs, read-only locking is used. I verified that if I changed the initramfs to use file locking (locking_type = 1), it boots fine. I gather that this isn't safe though (it's unclear to me why). Is this something that could ever be fixed in LVM, or is there just no way out of this without manual intervention? Maybe some way that LVM could automatically ignore the problem device? Thanks, Nate Here's a demonstration of the problem without requiring a reboot: [root@node0 ~]# vgcreate testvg /dev/sdd2 /dev/sde2 Volume group "testvg" successfully created [root@node0 ~]# lvcreate -n testlv1 -L 1G testvg /dev/sdd2 Logical volume "testlv1" created [root@node0 ~]# lvcreate -n testlv2 -L 1G testvg /dev/sde2 Logical volume "testlv2" created [root@node0 ~]# echo 1 > /sys/block/sde/device/delete [root@node0 ~]# vgreduce --force --removemissing testvg /dev/testvg/testlv2: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 1073676288: Input/output error /dev/testvg/testlv2: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 1073733632: Input/output error /dev/testvg/testlv2: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error /dev/testvg/testlv2: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output error Couldn't find device with uuid Nf66FO-dgXw-4pTa-lmB7-YAfL-AM4W-0iy6CA. Removing partial LV testlv2. Logical volume "testlv2" successfully removed Wrote out consistent volume group testvg [root@node0 ~]# emacs /etc/lvm/lvm.conf (change locking_type to 4 to simulate initramfs environment) [root@node0 ~]# echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan [root@node0 ~]# lvscan Read-only locking type set. Write locks are prohibited. Recovery of volume group "testvg" failed. Internal error: Attempt to unlock unlocked VG testvg. Skipping volume group testvg (this is what I see during the failed boot) [root@node0 ~]# emacs /etc/lvm/lvm.conf (change locking_type back to 1) [root@node0 ~]# lvscan WARNING: Inconsistent metadata found for VG testvg - updating to use version 5 Removing PV /dev/sde2 (Nf66FO-dgXw-4pTa-lmB7-YAfL-AM4W-0iy6CA) that no longer belongs to VG testvg ACTIVE '/dev/testvg/testlv1' [1.00 GiB] inherit </body> </html>