[linux-lvm] old metadata

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 09:16:03AM +0200, Alexander Elbs wrote:
> hi,
> 
> is it somehow possible to update the metadata without doing the according
> changes to the rest of the disk?
> 
> Because:
> 
> I currently have a VG containing 3 PV's. This worked fine, since
> yesterday. Now for some odd reason vgscan doesn't work:
> 
> vgscan -- reading data of volume group "data" from physical volume(s)
> vgscan -- ERROR "vg_read_with_pv_and_lv(): current PV" can't get data of
> volume
> group "data" from physical volume(s)
> 
> looking at the metadata (with pvdata, vgcfgrestore -l ) it looks like that
> every version of the metadata I have describes a configuration with 4
> PV's. I had this config, but several months ago!

How did you manage to have metadata for 4 PVs?
Did you eventually restore an old metadata backup with vgcfgrestor(8)?

> A few months ago I added a new disk, did a pvmove and removed a old disk.

With remove you mean "vgreduce data /dev/TheEmptyPV"?
If you just removed the physical device and your VG stayed online since
then, vgscan now can't find it any longer. In this case, you need to
pvcreate+vgcfgrestore a free disk and run ""vgreduce data /dev/TheFreeDisk"

> So temporarly there were 4 disks in my VG.
> 
> One way to fix my problem could be, that i somehow fake a pvmove. so only
> the metadata is updated. Then I would have a newer version of my metadata
> that hopefully reflect my real vg. But I also would have to fake the 4th
> disk to get vgscan working.

See above.

> 
> So is there a metadata editor or something like that? Or do I have to
> hexedit my disk?

No metadata editor, sorry.

I'll wait for your reply on my above questions before we go any further.

> 
> Ciao
> Alex
> 
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> 
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