Lars Tunkrans wrote: >Hi, > > I experienced a disasterous lvm installation failure today. On solaris 9 > 9/05 SPARC V240 > with 2 * 73 Gb disk and 2 * 146 GB disk > By placing the metadb in the last 128 MB on the " new" 146 GB disks on > a SUNFIRE V240, > and re-booting the server . When LVM tries to activate itself on powerup > , all metadb copies vanish into the great bit-bucket never to be seen > again. > > I thought about this for awhile ... Then I reinstalled the metadbs again > on only my two > 73 GB disk. this time lvm behaved normally. > > Question : is LVM vunerable if metadb's are placed after the 137 GB > boundary on a disk > > I will try next week to place the metadbs first on the 146 GB disk and > see if they are stable in that configuration. > Regards > //Lars >This message posted from opensolaris.org >_______________________________________________ >lvm-discuss mailing list >lvm-discuss at opensolaris.org > > It will be interesting to know what you find out. It really doesn't matter where you put the mddb as long as SVM can access the partition. Did you see any disk error during the reboot? You can check out /var/adm/messages or run dmesg.
Steve
