Re: Problem Installing FC 6 Final on LVs over software raid

[Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com>]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:18:57PM -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:00:35PM -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> >>I cannot get FC6 (or FC6T4, or Rawhide) to recognize one of the software 
> >>raid partitions as a PV for the LVs.
> >
> >Does this partition, or a physical disk below it, has, by any
> >chance, a spurious RAID signature?
> >
> >See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176623#c8
> >
> >Maybe this is something else, but just an idea ...
> 
> Hmmmm....interesting idea and very plausible.  Will following the steps 
> in 176623 cause the current data to be lost?

If this is a part of an active RAID then this should not be an
issue.  If this signature is really spurious then it should not be
there and I do not think that anything will be lost although I
cannot tell for sure in all situations.  I am not that familiar with
details of such setups.  In any case, if this is _really_ what you
are looking at, then 'dmraid -E -r ...' makes a backup, in root
$HOME AFAICT, of metadata removed.

Proceed with caution but I, for one, am quite interest in what
you will find.

   Michal