[linux-lvm] Machine crashed during pvmove, now can't manage VG

[Nick Leverton]

On Friday 01 July 2005 12:26, Nick Leverton wrote:
> My machine hung during a pvmove, and now I get kernel panic when
> accessing, in any formatted way, the LV with /usr on.  I've tried running
> just 'pvmove' by itself as per the pvmove man page, but it won't recover.
> The error message is:
> 	pvmove: ABORTING: Mirror percentage check failed

Colour me gobsmacked - but it's been left powered on but idle since 11am, and 
now there is no problem.  All LV's fsck'd perfectly.  Is this sort of 
recovery a feature of LVM2 ?  Or should I distrust it and reformat anyway ?

Nick