[linux-lvm] duplicate PV

[Tommaso Cecchi]

Hello everyone,
I have the following problem: I want to use a snapshot mechanism external to
LVM2 (i.e. snapshot from the storage server) so it happens that I access from a
linux box two identical LUNs with the same PVID. It is not a matter of
multipathing, they just are completely different devices with the same content
(and with the same PVID of course).

What I would like to do is to use and mount the second device on a different
mount point. So:

/dev/sdd1 is the primary PV
/dev/sdf1 is the snapshot of the primary PV

The result of pvscan before the discovery is:

drdb2:~ # pvscan
   PV /dev/sde1   VG drrg2_vg      lvm2 [200.00 GB / 0    free]
   PV /dev/sdd1   VG test_vg       lvm2 [200.00 GB / 0    free]
   PV /dev/sdb1   VG oracledb_vg   lvm2 [220.00 GB / 0    free]
   PV /dev/sdc1   VG oracledb_vg   lvm2 [20.00 GB / 0    free]
   PV /dev/sda3   VG root_vg       lvm2 [59.75 GB / 47.26 GB free]
   Total: 5 [699.73 GB] / in use: 5 [699.73 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]

after the discovery of the new device is:

drdb2:~ # pvscan
   Found duplicate PV PnvnzL7YFft76Ky0EaPbOh519SQD5Uxc: using /dev/sdf1 not
/dev/sdd1
   PV /dev/sde1   VG drrg2_vg      lvm2 [200.00 GB / 0    free]
   PV /dev/sdd1   VG test_vg       lvm2 [200.00 GB / 0    free]
   PV /dev/sdb1   VG oracledb_vg   lvm2 [220.00 GB / 0    free]
   PV /dev/sdc1   VG oracledb_vg   lvm2 [20.00 GB / 0    free]
   PV /dev/sda3   VG root_vg       lvm2 [59.75 GB / 47.26 GB free]
   Total: 5 [699.73 GB] / in use: 5 [699.73 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]

I guess this problem is the same I'd have if I copy any single byte from a 
device to another the last one resulting in having the same LVM label.

What I tried is to:

1) vgreduce:

drdb2:~ # vgreduce test_vg /dev/sdf1
   Found duplicate PV PnvnzL7YFft76Ky0EaPbOh519SQD5Uxc: using /dev/sdf1 not
/dev/sdd1
   Physical Volume "/dev/sdf1" not found in Volume Group "test_vg"

sdf1 does not belong to test_vg

2) pvchange --uuid:

drdb2:~ # pvchange --uuid /dev/sdf1
   Found duplicate PV PnvnzL7YFft76Ky0EaPbOh519SQD5Uxc: using /dev/sdd1 not
/dev/sdf1
   Volume group containing /dev/sdf1 has active logical volumes
   0 physical volumes changed / 1 physical volume not changed

My idea was to modify the PVID so to let LVM understand they are completely 
different devices.
How can I manage this?

Thanks for any help you may give me.
Tommaso

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