[CentOS] OT LVM question
S.Tindall
tindall.satwth at brandxmail.com
Thu Mar 24 16:44:35 UTC 2011
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 10:06 -0400, Steve Campbell wrote:
> The setup is a Raid6 of 5 drives. As best I can understand, this is
> basically a warning caused by Raid itself duplicating the UUID on all of
> the drives, as it should. For some reason, though, LVM is now looking at
> each drive in the container instead of looking at the device the Raid is
> presenting to LVM.
>
> Haven't changed anything in the conf file, but keep seeing a filter
> suggestion to resolve the warning. All LVM related commands show the
> same duplicate error. Don't know what changed that caused this to start
> happening, and it may have been going on for some time. I just noticed
> it when I needed to start investigating what might be a failing drive in
> the container. It only shows up when I issue an LVS type command or
> reboot. Being Centos, the reboot rarely happens.
>
> Thanks for the reply. I know I'm not offer much help here, so sorry for
> that.
>
> On 3/24/2011 8:02 AM, Digimer wrote:
> > On 03/24/2011 07:33 AM, Steve Campbell wrote:
> >> I've got a situation here where my LVM is showing the following problem:
> >>
> >> Found duplicate PV xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: using /dev/sdb2 not /dev/sda2
> >>
Normally, you can just change the uuid on the duplicate PV to resolve
the issue.
# pvchange -u /dev/sdb2
Not sure that will work in your case.
Steve (a different Steve :-)
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