[linux-lvm] Logical Volume disappears

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:58:36AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Feb 07, 2002  10:20 -0800, Wolfe, Gordon W wrote:
> > I needed to make a public repository for the contents of five CD's, so I
> > set up a Linux server using SuSE 2.2.16 on S/390 under z/VM.  For five
> > CD's, I figured two volumes ought to hold the contents.  An rpm query
> > shows lvm-0.8-157, which is what came with the SuSe distribution.
> 
> OK, well lvm-0.8 is _very_ old and undoubtably has a _huge_ number of
> bugs.  You should be able to use the recent LVM version on 2.2 kernels
> still.

That's true, but this should at least work.

> 
> > > I manually umounted /dev/vgcd/lvcd, shut down and rebooted Linux.
> > After the reboot, the device /dev/vgcd/lvcd does not exist.
> > vgscan says "vgscan -- no volume groups found"
> > pvscan says "pvscan -- no valid physical volumes found"
> 
> You probably need to add the names of the DASD devices to the list
> that LVM searches.

SuSE's S/390 Linux supports them.

> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
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> 
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