[linux-lvm] Hard disk failure, restore problem

[Thomas Berton]

Hello,

I've done

 > o identify your actual metadata backup (say, bigspace.conf)
 >
 > o mkdir /etc/lvmtab.d
 >
 > o cp bigspace.conf /etc/lvmtab.d/bigspace
 >
 > o echo -ne "bigspace\0" > /etc/lvmtab
 >
 > o vgchange -ay


after being sure to restore the metadata I have

pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg1" of VG "bigspace" [74.47 GB / 768 MB free]
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde1" of VG "bigspace" [149 GB / 0 free]
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdf1" of VG "bigspace" [149 GB / 139.16 GB free]
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdc1" of VG "bigspace" [111.75 GB / 0 free]
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdd1" of VG "bigspace" [74.47 GB / 0 free]
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda1" of VG "bigspace" [74.47 GB / 8.22 GB free]
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdb1" of VG "bigspace" [74.47 GB / 0 free]
pvscan -- total: 7 [708 GB] / in use: 7 [708 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]


vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
vgscan -- only found 17904 of 17876 LEs for LV /dev/bigspace/bigspace1 (0)
vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): allocated LE of LV" can't get
data of volume group "bigspace" from physical volume(s)
vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume
group

=> after the vgscan the echo -ne "bigspace\0" > /etc/lvmtab is gone gone
again....

[root at ment root]# lvscan
lvscan -- ERROR: VGDA in kernel and lvmtab are NOT consistent; please
run vgscan

after doing the vgscan, I get

pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdg1"  is associated to unknown VG
"bigspace" (run vgscan)
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hde1"  is associated to unknown VG
"bigspace" (run vgscan)
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdf1"  is associated to unknown VG
"bigspace" (run vgscan)
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdc1"  is associated to unknown VG
"bigspace" (run vgscan)
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdd1"  is associated to unknown VG
"bigspace" (run vgscan)
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda1"  is associated to unknown VG
"bigspace" (run vgscan)
pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hdb1"  is associated to unknown VG
"bigspace" (run vgscan)
pvscan -- total: 7 [708 GB] / in use: 7 [708 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]

again.


the /dev/bigspace/bigspace1 doesn't exists, so I can't mount.

should I recreate bigspace and force an import ?

I 've alse rebooted once after the vgchange -ay, but he also didn't find
the bigspace.

thanx again for your help!!

kind regards,
Thomas.