[linux-lvm] safe to ru-run vgscan after mounting LV root?

[Ed Tomlinson]

On Wednesday 28 March 2001 23:38, you wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> > You can run vgscan as many times as you like. The main reason you
> > wouldn't is the time it can take. But even that is small compared to the
> > initialisation time
>
> Thanks for the feedback.  That's what I figured, but ...
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:01:50AM -0500, Jay Sissom wrote:
> > Just a warning.  When I run vgscan on my system, it deletes my LV.  I
> > still don't know why.  There seems to be a terrible bug in vgscan.

What release of the utilities/patch?  I had this problem with beta2, which
is what ships with the kernel.  Upgrading to beta6 fixed it _here_.

> ... this worries me.

Me too...  Here hoping that beta6 is the answer.

> Could anyone else comment on this, please?  Is Jay's problem bizzare
> and irreproducable, or is there possibly a problem with replacing the
> lvmtab files from beneath the noses of the other tools?

Ed Tomlinson