[linux-lvm] RAID+LVM

[David Corbin]

Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote:

>On Sunday, 24 November 2002, at 07:57:31 -0500,
>David Corbin wrote:
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>>I have a debian system with LVM on top of a RAID.  Once up and running, 
>>it seems to work OK.  It's the getting it up and running that's a 
>>problem.  At boot, the raid drive is started, and then
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>>               /sbin/vgscan --verbose >/root/vg.start
>>               /sbin/vgchange -a y --verbose >>/root/vg.start
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>>Now, after the system finishes booting, if login as root and run those 
>>two commands again, I get.
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>I suppose your problem is the boot scritps trying to initialize LVM and
>software RAID in the wrong order (at least for your setup). To make a
>LVM on top of software RAID work, you first need to activate software
>RAID and then LVM.
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>Maybe in the boot sequence LVM is initialized first, and it fails. Then
>it activates software RAID, which succeedes. After system startup you
>just need to "vgchange -ay", and everything works ok.
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>Check /etc/rc2.d (runlevel 2 is typical for Debian), and see if
>rearranging boot scripts helps.
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I found the problem.  I had re-arrange the scripts in rc0.d to be 
correct, but not rcS.d.  Once they were in the correct order it works fine.

>Regards,
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