[linux-lvm] Re: missing physical volumes after upgrade to rhel 5.4

[Julie Ashworth]

Some additional information:

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# lvm dumpconfig
  devices {
    dir="/dev"
    scan="/dev"
    preferred_names=[]
    filter="a/.*/"
    cache_dir="/etc/lvm/cache"
    cache_file_prefix=""
    write_cache_state=1
    sysfs_scan=1
    md_component_detection=1
    ignore_suspended_devices=0
  }
  activation {
    missing_stripe_filler="/dev/ioerror"
    reserved_stack=256
    reserved_memory=8192
    process_priority=-18
    mirror_region_size=512
    readahead="auto"
    mirror_log_fault_policy="allocate"
    mirror_device_fault_policy="remove"
  }
  global {
    umask=63
    test=0
    units="h"
    activation=1
    proc="/proc"
    locking_type=1
    fallback_to_clustered_locking=1
    fallback_to_local_locking=1
    locking_dir="/var/lock/lvm"
  }
  shell {
    history_size=100
  }
  backup {
    backup=1
    backup_dir="/etc/lvm/backup"
    archive=1
    archive_dir="/etc/lvm/archive"
    retain_min=10
    retain_days=30
  }
  log {
    verbose=0
    syslog=1
    overwrite=0
    level=0
    indent=1
    command_names=0
    prefix="  "
  }

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(I powered off 2 of the storage devices, so only
one (12TB) device remains accessible):

# lvmdiskscan
  /dev/ramdisk   [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/md0       [      148.94 MB] 
  /dev/ram       [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/md1       [        3.91 GB] 
  /dev/ram2      [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/md2       [      105.46 GB] 
  /dev/dm-2      [       11.83 TB] 
  /dev/ram3      [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/sda3      [        3.91 GB] 
  /dev/md3       [        3.91 GB] 
  /dev/ram4      [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/md4       [      800.46 GB] 
  /dev/ram5      [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/ram6      [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/ram7      [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/ram8      [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/ram9      [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/ram10     [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/ram11     [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/ram12     [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/ram13     [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/ram14     [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/ram15     [       16.00 MB] 
  /dev/sdb6      [        3.91 GB] 
  /dev/sdb8      [        6.05 GB] 
  3 disks
  23 partitions
  0 LVM physical volume whole disks
  1 LVM physical volume



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Julie Ashworth <julie.ashworth at berkeley.edu>
Computational Infrastructure for Research Labs, UC Berkeley 
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