Markus Falb wrote:
Hey, (sorry for cross-posting, you will find this message also in centos-virt, maybe, but this was not intended and a mistake)
I have a system with a mdraid 1
... md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0] 1465031488 blocks [2/2] [UU] ...
this raid partition has a lvm physical volume with one volume group and several logical volumes. This machine is running since years and I seldom touch the lvm config. The lvm commands are giving me strange warnings I am uncomfortable with
... # pvdisplay Found duplicate PV b79x0kLXR9mAC0z0IZUxyJG1VC24Crl7: using /dev/sda2 not /dev/md1 --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda2 VG Name vg_sys PV Size 1.36 TB / not usable 6.81 MB
<snip> smartctl -t short to start. And is there anything in your logfiles saying something like " Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], 98 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors"?
mark, who's working at decommissioning that server the line's from...