[linux-lvm] "Close failed: Bad file descriptor" messages on pvcreate

[Jeffrey Johnson]

On 5/3/05, Sreedharan_Vinod at emc.com <Sreedharan_Vinod at emc.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When I do pvcreate, I get deluged with "pvcreate /dev/sdf: close failed:
> Bad file descriptor" messages.
> 
> I need to explicity open another session to kill the previous pvcreate
> instance to get out of this situation.
> 
> On the same system, pvcreate another device succeeds.
> 

I've had the same problem with some SAN attached storage. I was able to 
workaround it by doing a vgcreate using the physical volume pvcreate failed 
on. This will obviously fail, but a subsequent pvcreate on the device will 
then work.
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