Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | AW: Problems with LVM and "scsi add-single-device" | | Date | Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:40:14 +0200 | | From | "Michael Dr|ing" <> |
The problem was fixed by applying the patch for "/proc/partitions endless loop" posted on the kernel mailing list. Hope this patch will be in the next kernel-release...
--Michael
> -----Ursprngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Michael Dring > Gesendet: Freitag, 28. September 2001 14:34 > An: Linux Kernel Mailing List (E-Mail) > Cc: Alexander Landgraf > Betreff: Problems with LVM and "scsi add-single-device" > > > Hi, > > we're having problems using LVM (see end of mail for version > numbers) together with the "scsi add-single-device"-feature: > We have an external RAID which responds on three SCSI-LUN's: > ID 2, LUN 0 to 2. On LUNs 0 and 1 we have created PVs and > mapped them into one LV. Now we wanted to extend our > filesystem (XFS) on the third LUN without bringing the system down. > We did an "echo scsi add-single-device 2 0 2 2 > > /proc/scsi/scsi" to make the kernel recognize the new LUN. > But after that all calls to "pvscan" or "pvcreate" or even > "vgscan" failed. They slow down the system extremely and we > have to interrupt them with Ctrl-C. > Anyone got an idea what the problem might be? > > Thanks > --Michael > > Here are some version numbers of our system: > Linux 2.4.10 (base system is SuSE 7.1 with SGI XFS kernel > built from CVS-tree) > LVM 0.9.1 beta 6 (however, the user programs [pvscan, > pvcreate, ...] are from beta 7) > aic7xxx driver 6.2.1 (that's our SCSI adapter) > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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