[linux-lvm] Help: lvm 0.9.1_beta3 oops (desperate plea)

Heinz J. Mauelshagen Mauelshagen at sistina.com
Mon Jan 29 16:35:48 UTC 2001


Andreas has a good point here.

Minor correction: the names of the functions are pv_read_all_pv()
and pv_read_all_pv_of_vg().

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 11:53:02PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Joe Harvell writes:
> > I really, really, really need the data that is on this VG.
> > 
> > So if anyone at Sistina really wants to get to the bottom of this, you
> > just got yourself a dedicated beta-tester.  I am an experienced software
> > developper with a small amount of Linux device-driver experience.  I can
> > provide hexdumps of the relevant portions of the actual partitions.
> > I am willing to run any series of tests on this machine to help find
> > the root cause of this problem.  Whatever it takes.
> 
> Not that I'm from Sistina, but one thing you could start out checking is
> in lvm_read_all_pv_of_vg(), and print out the PV list at each step of the
> way.  It may be possible that some of the PVs are being removed from the
> list, even though they are not supposed to.  The first list, returned
> from lvm_read_all_pv(), should be all of the PVs on your system.
> 
> Cheers, Andreas
> -- 
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>                  \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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