[linux-lvm] lvm2 confused about double UUID

[Christian Kujau]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 at 06:41, malahal at us.ibm.com wrote:
> I believe, "pvs" always rescans and just prints names it finds. It
> doesn't really tell what is used.

That's a pity then, I thought I could "trust" pvs to show what's really 
used, without going to the devices - which I did, and iostat disagreed 
with LVM. OTOH, this split mirror was confusing LVM, and me as well.

Anyway, I just went for it now: removed the filter= directives, 
ran pvcreate on sdb, now we have different UUID and all LVs survived - all 
but two, but these two were created after the split and must've been 
written to sdb. I think this was done before I installed the filter= in 
lvm.conf, because all the other LVs contain current data.

Lessons learned: deal with double UUIDs right after the mirror split, not 
a weeks later (which I did, because the backup took that long, but that's 
another story).

Thanks for all the comments on this,
Christian.
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