[linux-lvm] LVM 0.9.1 beta 7 & CVS differences ?

Joe Thornber thornber at btconnect.com
Fri Jul 13 08:43:31 UTC 2001


Migration tool has been written (pvversion), and is being tested at
the moment.  Please roll back to beta7 tools until we're sure it's correct.

- Joe


On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 01:26:30AM +0200, Bas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using an XFS enabled 2.4.6 kernel. It used to run with 0.9.1 beta 6, and
> could be upgraded to 0.9.1 beta 7. LVM is not compiled as a module, it's in
> the kernel.
> 
> I applied the CVS patch today (after the Oops ... message), and tried to
> boot using a newly generated initrd. Now it can't seem to find my volume
> group. Whenever I start using my old LVM kernel, it can read my VG and all
> assiocated LV's. When I run the new tools on my old kernel, it says
> 
> lsvg -- ERROR: VGDA in kernel and lvmtab are NOT consistent; please run
> vgscan. Whenever I run vgscan, I end up with an empty /etc/lvmtab.d and an
> empty  /etc/lvmtab, but it doesn't change anything.
> 
> pvscan returns:
> [bigdude]#pvscan -u
> pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> pvscan -- ERROR "pv_read(): LVM structure version" reading physical volumes
> 
> I recompiled the 0.9.1 beta 7 tools, and it returns:
> pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> pvscan -- ACTIVE   PV "/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2" of VG
> "rootvg" [8.45 GB / 3.89 GB free]
> pvscan -- total: 1 [8.45 GB] / in use: 1 [8.45 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]
> 
> Is there some kind of migration tool ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bas.
> 
> 
> 
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