SLES10 LVM vgchange -c y

[Court Campbell]

And lastly here is some good documentation on evms2:

http://evms.sourceforge.net/user_guide/

[Peter J. Kraus]

Court,
even it maybe not a solid answer but at least it's a very useful one. We have heard about evms but never dived into it. But with this documentation it seems to be worth to have a closer look into it. Let's see if it could solve our problem.

[Colin Topliss]

For anyone finding this thread...

It appears to be broken under SLES. The only two ways we've found so far are to blow the disk away and start again (destructive), or vgcfgrestore the appropriate config:

tdbsl003:/etc/lvm/archive # vgcfgrestore -l vg_testdb02a

File: /etc/lvm/archive/vg_testdb02a_00000.vg
VG name: vg_testdb02a
Description: Created *before* executing 'vgs'
Backup Time: Tue Jun 16 20:54:18 2009


File: /etc/lvm/archive/vg_testdb02a_00001.vg
VG name: vg_testdb02a
Description: Created *before* executing 'vgexport vg_testdb02a'
Backup Time: Tue Jun 16 21:10:24 2009


File: /etc/lvm/archive/vg_testdb02a_00002.vg
VG name: vg_testdb02a
Description: Created *before* executing 'vgimport /dev/vg_testdb02a'
Backup Time: Tue Jun 16 21:52:28 2009


File: /etc/lvm/archive/vg_testdb02a_00003.vg
VG name: vg_testdb02a
Description: Created *before* executing 'vgdisplay'
Backup Time: Wed Jun 17 09:18:21 2009


File: /etc/lvm/archive/vg_testdb02a_00004.vg
VG name: vg_testdb02a
Description: Created *before* executing 'vgdisplay'
Backup Time: Wed Jun 17 09:18:21 2009


File: /etc/lvm/archive/vg_testdb02a_00005.vg
VG name: vg_testdb02a
Description: Created *before* executing 'vgchange -cy vg_testdb02a'
Backup Time: Wed Jun 17 09:20:11 2009


File: /etc/lvm/backup/vg_testdb02a
VG name: vg_testdb02a
Description: Created *after* executing 'vgchange -cy vg_testdb02a'
Backup Time: Wed Jun 17 09:20:11 2009

tdbsl003:/etc/lvm/archive # vgcfgrestore -f /etc/lvm/archive/vg_testdb02a_00005.vg vg_testdb02a