Description of problem: [root@hayes-02 cache]# pvcreate /dev/etherd/e1.1p* Physical volume "/dev/etherd/e1.1p1" successfully created Physical volume "/dev/etherd/e1.1p2" successfully created Physical volume "/dev/etherd/e1.1p3" successfully created Physical volume "/dev/etherd/e1.1p4" successfully created Physical volume "/dev/etherd/e1.1p5" successfully created [root@hayes-02 cache]# pvscan PV /dev/sda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [74.38 GB / 0 free] PV /dev/etherd/e1.1p1 lvm2 [1.77 TB] PV /dev/etherd/e1.1p2 lvm2 [1.77 TB] PV /dev/etherd/e1.1p3 lvm2 [1.77 TB] PV /dev/etherd/e1.1p4 lvm2 [1.77 TB] PV /dev/etherd/e1.1p5 lvm2 [1.77 TB] Total: 6 [8.94 TB] / in use: 1 [74.38 GB] / in no VG: 5 [8.87 TB] [root@hayes-02 cache]# vgcreate V1 /dev/etherd/e1.1p1 Clustered volume group "V1" successfully created [root@hayes-02 cache]# vgcreate V2 /dev/etherd/e1.1p2 Clustered volume group "V2" successfully created [root@hayes-02 cache]# pvscan PV /dev/etherd/e1.1p2 VG V2 lvm2 [1.77 TB / 1.77 TB free] PV /dev/etherd/e1.1p1 VG V1 lvm2 [1.77 TB / 1.77 TB free] PV /dev/sda2 VG VolGroup00 lvm2 [74.38 GB / 0 free] PV /dev/etherd/e1.1p3 lvm2 [1.77 TB] PV /dev/etherd/e1.1p4 lvm2 [1.77 TB] PV /dev/etherd/e1.1p5 lvm2 [1.77 TB] Total: 6 [8.94 TB] / in use: 3 [3.62 TB] / in no VG: 3 [5.32 TB] [root@hayes-02 cache]# lvcreate -L 500M -n L1 V1 Logical volume "L1" created [root@hayes-02 cache]# lvcreate -L 500M -n L2 V2 Logical volume "L2" created [root@hayes-02 cache]# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert L1 V1 -wi-a- 500.00M L2 V2 -wi-a- 500.00M LogVol00 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 64.56G LogVol01 VolGroup00 -wi-ao 9.81G [root@hayes-02 cache]# pvcreate /dev/V1/L1 Physical volume "/dev/V1/L1" successfully created [root@hayes-02 cache]# pvcreate /dev/V2/L2 Physical volume "/dev/V2/L2" successfully created [root@hayes-02 cache]# vgcreate top /dev/V1/L1 /dev/V2/L2 Clustered volume group "top" successfully created [root@hayes-02 cache]# lvcreate -L 100M -n top top Error locking on node hayes-01: Volume group for uuid not found: kDRUMuWfyQ4dylgW9ewigr3t2E2D2R6Ppd leR3IdbNutwo0ayb4Gv1RGEbqEtk3D Error locking on node hayes-03: Volume group for uuid not found: kDRUMuWfyQ4dylgW9ewigr3t2E2D2R6Ppd leR3IdbNutwo0ayb4Gv1RGEbqEtk3D Error locking on node hayes-02: Volume group for uuid not found: kDRUMuWfyQ4dylgW9ewigr3t2E2D2R6Ppd leR3IdbNutwo0ayb4Gv1RGEbqEtk3D Aborting. Failed to activate new LV to wipe the start of it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.18-128.el5 lvm2-2.02.40-6.el5 BUILT: Fri Oct 24 07:37:33 CDT 2008 lvm2-cluster-2.02.40-7.el5 BUILT: Wed Nov 26 07:19:19 CST 2008 device-mapper-1.02.28-2.el5 BUILT: Fri Sep 19 02:50:32 CDT 2008 cmirror-1.1.36-1.el5 BUILT: Tue Dec 9 16:38:13 CST 2008 kmod-cmirror-0.1.21-10.el5 BUILT: Wed Dec 17 15:18:59 CST 2008 How reproducible: most of the time
We've made many changes here - can you retry this *on RHEL6* ?
This does appear to work now. [root@taft-02 tmp]# pvcreate /dev/sd[bcdefgh]1 Physical volume "/dev/sdb1" successfully created Physical volume "/dev/sdc1" successfully created [root@taft-02 tmp]# vgcreate V1 /dev/sdb1 Clustered volume group "V1" successfully created [root@taft-02 tmp]# vgcreate V2 /dev/sdc1 Clustered volume group "V2" successfully created [root@taft-02 tmp]# pvscan PV /dev/sdc1 VG V2 lvm2 [135.66 GiB / 135.66 GiB free] PV /dev/sdb1 VG V1 lvm2 [135.66 GiB / 135.66 GiB free] PV /dev/sda2 VG vg_taft02 lvm2 [67.75 GiB / 0 free] Total: 8 [1017.41 GiB] / in use: 3 [339.08 GiB] / in no VG: 5 [678.33 GiB] [root@taft-02 tmp]# lvcreate -L 500M -n L1 V1 Logical volume "L1" created [root@taft-02 tmp]# lvcreate -L 500M -n L2 V2 Logical volume "L2" created [root@taft-02 tmp]# lvs LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert L1 V1 -wi-a- 500.00m L2 V2 -wi-a- 500.00m [root@taft-02 tmp]# pvcreate /dev/V1/L1 Physical volume "/dev/V1/L1" successfully created [root@taft-02 tmp]# pvcreate /dev/V2/L2 Physical volume "/dev/V2/L2" successfully created [root@taft-02 tmp]# vgcreate top /dev/V1/L1 /dev/V2/L2 Clustered volume group "top" successfully created [root@taft-02 tmp]# lvcreate -L 100M -n top top Logical volume "top" created [root@taft-02 tmp]# lvs -a -o +devices LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% Convert Devices L1 V1 -wi-ao 500.00m /dev/sdb1(0) L2 V2 -wi-a- 500.00m /dev/sdc1(0) top top -wi-a- 100.00m /dev/dm-3(0)