[linux-lvm] pvcreate issues

[Arshavir Grigorian]

AJ Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:48:11PM -0400, Arshavir Grigorian wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>We have a SAN that exports 4 LUNs. These appear as SCSI devices on the 
>>server (/dev/sd[c-f]). When I try to create physical volumes on these 
>>devices, I get the following error:
>>
>>#>pvcreate /dev/sdc
>>  Physical volume "/dev/sdc" successfully created
>>
>>#>pvcreate /dev/sdd
>>  Found duplicate PV ZlhU50ejJ1VkoULTcU5ODsl2BP26IjQW: using /dev/sdc 
>>not /dev/sdd
>>  Found duplicate PV ZlhU50ejJ1VkoULTcU5ODsl2BP26IjQW: using /dev/sde 
>>not /dev/sdd
>>  Found duplicate PV ZlhU50ejJ1VkoULTcU5ODsl2BP26IjQW: using /dev/sdf 
>>not /dev/sdd
>>  Physical volume "/dev/sdd" successfully created
>>
>>This happens after pvcreate is run the second time, does not matter in 
>>which order. It looks like when pvcreate sets the device id, it somehow 
>>sets it for all the devices.
> 
> 
> You're sure sd[c-f] is not the same device on multiple paths?
> 

How can I be sure? How do I check?

This SAN exports another set of 4 LUNs to a different server and they 
work just fine.

pvcreate --version
   LVM version:     2.00.33 (2005-01-07)
   Library version: 1.00.19-ioctl (2004-07-03)
   Driver version:  4.4.0

pvcreate on the server that does not work is a little newer, so I wonder 
if there was any new code/bug fix(es) since this version that caused a 
regression.

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Arshavir Grigorian
Systems Administrator/Engineer