Re: [linux-lvm] pvcreate issues

[Arshavir Grigorian <ag m-cam com>]

AJ Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 02:48:11PM -0400, Arshavir Grigorian wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have a SAN that exports 4 LUNs. These appear as SCSI devices on the 
> > server (/dev/sd[c-f]). When I try to create physical volumes on these 
> > devices, I get the following error:
> >
> > #>pvcreate /dev/sdc
> >  Physical volume "/dev/sdc" successfully created
> >
> > #>pvcreate /dev/sdd
> >  Found duplicate PV ZlhU50ejJ1VkoULTcU5ODsl2BP26IjQW: using /dev/sdc 
> > not /dev/sdd
> >  Found duplicate PV ZlhU50ejJ1VkoULTcU5ODsl2BP26IjQW: using /dev/sde 
> > not /dev/sdd
> >  Found duplicate PV ZlhU50ejJ1VkoULTcU5ODsl2BP26IjQW: using /dev/sdf 
> > not /dev/sdd
> >  Physical volume "/dev/sdd" successfully created
> >
> > This happens after pvcreate is run the second time, does not matter in 
> > which order. It looks like when pvcreate sets the device id, it somehow 
> > sets it for all the devices.
>
>
> You're sure sd[c-f] is not the same device on multiple paths?

How can I be sure? How do I check?

This SAN exports another set of 4 LUNs to a different server and they 
work just fine.

pvcreate --version
  LVM version:     2.00.33 (2005-01-07)
  Library version: 1.00.19-ioctl (2004-07-03)
  Driver version:  4.4.0

pvcreate on the server that does not work is a little newer, so I wonder 
if there was any new code/bug fix(es) since this version that caused a 
regression.

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Arshavir Grigorian
Systems Administrator/Engineer