[linux-lvm] LVM2 and RAID 1 not working on Fedora Core 2

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:42:58AM -0400, Zachary Hamm wrote:
> 
> Hello, I'm running Fedora Core 2 on a Dell Poweredge 1750 with three 36G
> SCSI drives setup with two volumes, /boot and /, setup with software RAID 1
> with online spare.  This was setup at install, which reported no errors.
> I've done a yum update as well.
> 
> The problem is that only one of the to volume groups is recognized and
> mirrored (/boot), as apparently vgscan does not like the the large drives
> (which aren't that large...).   Any help is appreciated.
> 

It looks to me like you need to stop LVM looking at the "real" disks, and make
it only look at the MD devices.

Either add a filter like "a/md*/" or add "md_component_detection = 1" to the
devices section of the lvm.conf file - if you're running a recent lvm2
userspace.

-- 

patrick