[linux-lvm] Re: lvextend error on XFS

[Frank J. Buchholz]

"Frank J. Buchholz" <frankb ercwc org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I recently attempted to extend my logical volume.  First I added an
> additional physical volume to an existing volume group.  This worked
> fine.
>
> vgextend Volume00 /dev/sba
> lvextend -L+100G /dev/Volume00/LogVol00
>
> However when it came time to run the lvextend command I received a
> number of  device-mapper errors.  While I was trying to determine what
> the errors were I noticed that the filesystem that sits on the logical
> volume being extended was no longer available.  I attempted to umount
> the filesystem however the command froze.  I then rebooted the system
> without mounting the filesystem in question and manually mounted the
> filesystem. XFS reported back that it could not locate the superblock.

I have done lvextend followed by xfs_growfs many times without any
problems.  Have you checked for hardware errors?

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru inprovide com

Måns - 

Unfortunately the timing is far too coincidental to be a hardware error.

Just after typing the following command and recieving the following error
lvm> lvextend -L+1G /dev/Volume00/LogVol00
  Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 2.93 TB
  device-mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument
  Couldn't load device 'Volume00-LogVol00'.
  Problem reactivating LogVol00

I then noticed that the filesystem on LogVol00 was no longer available
and when I ran xfs_repair it stated the following:
# xfs_repair /dev/Volume00/LogVol00 
Phase 1 - find and verify superblock...
superblock read failed, offset 0, size 524288, ag 0, rval 0
 
fatal error -- Invalid argument