[linux-lvm] hard-lock seems to have caused serious LVM problems

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:03:58AM -0500, dmeyer at dmeyer.net wrote:
> In article <20010115162523.A31019 at srv.t-online.de> you write:
> > Every PV is assumed to hold all the PV UUIDs of all PVs in the volume group
> > the PV belongs to.
> 
> The PVs and VGs were created with 0.8final - I migrated to 0.9 tools
> when I upgraded to linux-2.4.0.  Could it be related to that somehow?

No, it shouldn't.
0.9 created PV UUIDs automagically in case there were none before.

> 
> Interestingly enough, something seems to have fixed my PVs in the
> meantime - now they all have every UUID.  Either activating the VG or
> running vgck must have done it.

No, it doesn't happen while activating VGs or checking them.

The following tools call vg_write_with_pv_and_lv() in the library
which in turn calls pv_write_uuidlist() to do the UUID list update:

lvcreate
lvextend
lvreduce
lvremove
lvrename
vgcfgrestore
vgchange (in case you change the max LV property)
vgcreate
vgexport
vgextend
vgimport
vgmerge
vgreduce
vgrename
vgscan
vgsplit

You must have run one of those tools in order to update the UUID list.
It is still rather interesting what caused the mess you reported in the first
place.

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