[linux-lvm] one PV crashed

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 12:01:29PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> Quoting Turbo Fredriksson <turbo at bayour.com>:
> 
> > [papadoc.root]# vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg1.conf -n vg1 /dev/loop0
> > vgcfgrestore -- physical volume "/dev/loop0" doesn't belong to volume group "vg1"
> > 
> > [papadoc.root]# vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvmconf/vg1.conf -n vg1 -o /dev/sdg1 /dev/loop0
> > vgcfgrestore -- ERROR "pv_read(): pv_create_name_from_kdev_t" reading physical volume "/dev/loop0"
> >
> > [papadoc.root]# pvdisplay -v /dev/loop0 
> > pvdisplay -- getting physical volume size
> > pvdisplay -- ERROR "pv_read(): pv_create_name_from_kdev_t" no VALID physical volume "/dev/loop0"
> 
> 
> Does anyone have a solution to this? What am I doing wrong?

Turbo,

you seem to be using an older LVM version with broken loop support :-(
Found a bug in vgcfgrestore(8) which will likely cause problems with this too.
More to follow...


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