[linux-lvm] Removing PV with disk errors from VG
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Wed Mar 13 05:06:02 UTC 2002
Chris,
have you applied the cast patch for the llseek function, which fixes
this problem mentioned several times here on the list?
You should definitely *not* use CVS right now because it is a moving pre-release
target which still has bugs!
Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:16:10PM -0500, Chris Harwell wrote:
> hi,
>
> i've also run into errors when trying to use pvmove.
>
> after offline shrinking with e2fsadm i was able to pvmove the PE's from
> several partitions succesfully - all small ~256MB. then the last one, a
> large one ~3GB ran into troubles:
>
> [root at totally80s init.d]# pvmove /dev/hda14
> pvmove -- moving physical extents in active volume group "vg0"
> pvmove -- WARNING: if you lose power during the move you may need
> to restore your LVM metadata from backup!
> pvmove -- do you want to continue? [y/n] y
> pvmove -- ERROR reading input physical volume "/dev/hda14" (still 458752
> bytes to read)
> pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" moving physical extents
>
> and then this (same without the -i and --force options, which i tried
> first). btw. a --test completed w/o errors.
>
> [root at totally80s init.d]# pvmove -i --force --verbose /dev/hda14
> pvmove -- checking name of source physical volume "/dev/hda14"
> pvmove -- locking logical volume manager
> pvmove -- reading data of source physical volume from "/dev/hda14"
> pvmove -- checking volume group existence
> pvmove -- reading data of volume group "vg0" from lvmtab
> pvmove -- checking volume group consistency of "vg0"
> pvmove -- searching for source physical volume "/dev/hda14" in volume
> group "vg0"
> pvmove -- building list of possible destination physical volumes
> pvmove -- checking volume group activity
> pvmove -- moving physical extents in active volume group "vg0"
> pvmove -- starting to move extents away from physical volume "/dev/hda14"
> pvmove -- checking for enough free physical extents in "vg0"
> pvmove -- /dev/hda14 [PE 0 [lvol1 [LE 310]] -> /dev/hdd9 [PE 16182]
> [1/1202]
> pvmove -- ERROR "Invalid argument" remapping
> pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move(): LE of LV remap" moving physical extents
>
>
> before:
> [root at totally80s /root]# pvscan
> pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdc1" of VG "vg0" [19.53 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdc2" of VG "vg0" [19.53 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdc3" of VG "vg0" [19.53 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdc4" of VG "vg0" [13 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdd9" of VG "vg0" [72 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hda9" of VG "vg0" [248 MB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hda10" of VG "vg0" [248 MB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hda11" of VG "vg0" [248 MB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hda12" of VG "vg0" [248 MB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hda13" of VG "vg0" [248 MB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hda14" of VG "vg0" [4.70 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb1" of VG "vg0" [19.53 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb2" of VG "vg0" [19.53 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb3" of VG "vg0" [19.53 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb4" of VG "vg0" [17.72 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- total: 15 [225.84 GB] / in use: 15 [225.84 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0]
>
> after the successful
> pvmove, vgreduce.. cycle for hda9,10,11,12,13 and pvmove hda14 failure:
>
> pvscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdc1" of VG "vg0" [19.53 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdc2" of VG "vg0" [19.53 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdc3" of VG "vg0" [19.53 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdc4" of VG "vg0" [13 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdd9" of VG "vg0" [72 GB / 6.79 GB free]
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda9" is in no VG [250.98 MB]
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda10" is in no VG [250.98 MB]
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda11" is in no VG [250.98 MB]
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda12" is in no VG [250.98 MB]
> pvscan -- inactive PV "/dev/hda13" is in no VG [250.98 MB]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hda14" of VG "vg0" [4.70 GB / 2 GB free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb1" of VG "vg0" [19.53 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb2" of VG "vg0" [19.53 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb3" of VG "vg0" [19.53 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- ACTIVE PV "/dev/hdb4" of VG "vg0" [17.72 GB / 0 free]
> pvscan -- total: 15 [225.84 GB] / in use: 10 [224.62 GB] / in no VG: 5
> [1.23 GB]
>
> RedHat 7.0 + Linux 2.4.18 + lvm-1.0.3
>
> any advise? should i also try that cvs version?
>
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
>
> >
> > Kalle,
> >
> > well that's a bug in 1.0.3 which will be fixed in 1.0.4.
> > If you wnat to try it at your own risk, check out LVM1 CVS and
> > try "pvmove -i" again.
> >
> > 1.0.4 will hopefully be released this week :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:40:19PM +0100, kalle at idlar.nu wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I have built a VG from a couple of disks and have now discovered that one
> > > disk is not working right. Im getting a lot of theese kinds of errors:
> > >
> > > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hdd), sector 2321462
> > > hdd: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
> > > hdd: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=12571028,
> > > sector=2321558
> > >
> > > So I would like to move the data that still can be accessed from the bad
> > > disk and remove the disk from the VG.
> > > When I run pvmove /dev/hdd1 I get theese errors:
> > > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130688 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130689 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130690 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130691 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130692 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130693 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130694 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > > pvmove -- ERROR "Input/output error" reading sector 130695 from "/dev/hdd1"
> > > pvmove -- ERROR reading input physical volume "/dev/hdd1" (still 393216
> > > bytes to read)
> > > pvmove -- ERROR "pv_move_pe(): read input PV" moving physical extents
> > >
> > > I have tried to upgrade to the 1.0.3 tools and doing "pvmove -i /dev/hdd1"
> > > but I still get the same errors.
> > > Im using lvm-mod version 1.0.1-rc4 with kernel 2.4.17.
> > >
> > > Im willing to accept data loss, so is it possible to force the removal of
> > > the PV, even if its not empty?
> > >
> > > Can I somehow display the files that occupies a PV? so that I know which
> > > files will be lost.
> > >
> > > What if I just remove the /dev/hdd1 partition with fdisk? will that mess up
> > > the whole VG?
> > >
> > > any help appreciateed!
> > >
> > >
> > > /Regards kalle...
> > >
> > >
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>
> --
> chris
> charwell at digitalpulp.com
>
>
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