[linux-lvm] LVM bug

[Steven Lembark]

-- Rich Turner <rich at storix.com>

> The following is a situation where LVM fails.
>
> Previously, I installed a system and created a physical volume on an
> entire disk. I am now re-installing the system and have created a
> physical volume on a partition on the same disk. The partition was
> created with sfdisk. I am able to create volume groups and logical
> volumes with no problem.
>
> The problem arises after a reboot of the system. vgscan fails to find
> any volume groups. pvscan finds physical volumes on both the disk and
> the partition. It appears LVM fails when creating a physical volume on a
> partition of a disk when there was previously a physical volume on the
> same entire disk.
>
> Using LVM 1.0.1

(1) 1.0.1 is pretty badly out of date; suggest updating to
    1.0.6 or 2.X.

(2) Running pvcreate on a full device (e.g., /dev/hda) then
    again on /dev/hdaX will end up overwriting a portion of
    the contents in your first PV with the second one. LVM
    did exactly what you wanted it to. How is the a bug.





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