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тАО03-23-2010 11:11 AM
тАО03-23-2010 11:11 AM
Alternate Link Problem
Not sure if I missed a step.
I had 2 disks in vg00
/dev/dsk/c0t8d0s2(boot) and /dev/dsk/c0t10d0.
they are both in PVG0
I tried to mirror them with two other disk in vg00
/dev/dsk/c0t12d0s2 (boot)and /dev/dsk/c0t14d0.
Since I want them seperated I edited the LVMPVG file and put the 3rd and 4th disk under PVG1
However when I do #vgdisplay -v /dev/vg00
I noticed that below had ALTERNATE LINK:
----------------------------------------------
--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t8d0s2
PV Status available
Total PE 4228
Free PE 0
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t10d0
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t14d0 Alternate Link
PV Status available
Total PE 4238
Free PE 3055
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t12d0s2
PV Status available
Total PE 4228
Free PE 942
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On
----------
When I vgreduce the /dev/dsk/c0t14d0 the disk information for /dev/dsk/c0t10d0 is displayed again.
Hoever when I extend vg00 with /dev/dsk/c0t14d0 it seems it does something to the /dev/dsk/c0t10d0 , because as you can see above the c0t10d0 info is not displayed and I get this Altrnate link.
Any idea what is going on and how I can fix it.
FYI, this two volumes were used by someone else before as other logival volumes. I did an DD to over write over them and created new device files.
I had 2 disks in vg00
/dev/dsk/c0t8d0s2(boot) and /dev/dsk/c0t10d0.
they are both in PVG0
I tried to mirror them with two other disk in vg00
/dev/dsk/c0t12d0s2 (boot)and /dev/dsk/c0t14d0.
Since I want them seperated I edited the LVMPVG file and put the 3rd and 4th disk under PVG1
However when I do #vgdisplay -v /dev/vg00
I noticed that below had ALTERNATE LINK:
----------------------------------------------
--- Physical volumes ---
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t8d0s2
PV Status available
Total PE 4228
Free PE 0
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t10d0
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t14d0 Alternate Link
PV Status available
Total PE 4238
Free PE 3055
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t12d0s2
PV Status available
Total PE 4228
Free PE 942
Autoswitch On
Proactive Polling On
----------
When I vgreduce the /dev/dsk/c0t14d0 the disk information for /dev/dsk/c0t10d0 is displayed again.
Hoever when I extend vg00 with /dev/dsk/c0t14d0 it seems it does something to the /dev/dsk/c0t10d0 , because as you can see above the c0t10d0 info is not displayed and I get this Altrnate link.
Any idea what is going on and how I can fix it.
FYI, this two volumes were used by someone else before as other logival volumes. I did an DD to over write over them and created new device files.
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тАО03-23-2010 11:32 AM
тАО03-23-2010 11:32 AM
Re: Alternate Link Problem
Hard or impossible to suggest something without knowing the hardware/configuration details. Do you have some more information regarding the disks, connection, etc. ... ?
Hope this helps!
Regards
Torsten.
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тАО03-23-2010 02:01 PM
тАО03-23-2010 02:01 PM
Re: Alternate Link Problem
Not sure what information you needed. Anyway, I was able to fix the issue.
I reduced the 4th (c0t14d0)disk and again did a DD of information from a different disk source, then I deleted all the related device files and used idisk, insf and pvcreate command.
I then did vgextend again and this time it worked with no alternate link issues.
Not sure which step fixed it, but I thought there was something linking:
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t10d0
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t14d0 Alternate Link
so started the last disk from scratch it worked.Not sure what was wrong though.
Sorry to have wasted your time.
I reduced the 4th (c0t14d0)disk and again did a DD of information from a different disk source, then I deleted all the related device files and used idisk, insf and pvcreate command.
I then did vgextend again and this time it worked with no alternate link issues.
Not sure which step fixed it, but I thought there was something linking:
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t10d0
PV Name /dev/dsk/c0t14d0 Alternate Link
so started the last disk from scratch it worked.Not sure what was wrong though.
Sorry to have wasted your time.
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