Miles O'Neal wrote: > John Summerfield said... > > |> recap: new 64 bit Intel quadcore server with Adaptec SATA RAID > |> controller, 16x1TB drives. 1 drive JBOD for OS. The rest are > |> setup as RAID6 with 1 spare. We've tried EL5.1 + all yum updates, > |> and EL5.2 stock. We can't get /dev/sdb1 (12TB) stable with ext2 > |> or xfs (ext3 blows up in the journal setup). > |> > |> So I decided to carve /dev/sdb up into a dozen partitions and > |> use LVM. Initially I want to use one partition per LV and make > |> each of those one xfs FS. Then as things grow I can add a PV > |> (one partition per PV) into the appropriate VG and grow the LV/FS. > |> Between typos and missteps, I've had to build up and tear down the > |> LV pieces several times. And now I get messages such as > |> > |> Aborting - please provide new pathname for what used to be /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:01:00.0-scsi-0:0:1:0-part6 > |> or > |> Device /dev/sdb6 not found (or ignored by filtering). > |> > |> I clean it all up, wipe out all the files in /etc/lvm/*/* > |> (including cache/.cache), and try again, still broken. > |> > |> I tried rebooting. Still broken. > |> > |> How can I fix this short of a full reinstall? > |> > |> The whole LVM system feels really kludgy. I suppose there's > |> not a better alternative at this time? > | > |How large a filesystem are you trying to create? > > Each partition is roughly 1TB. So each pv wll be 1TB > (12 TB / 12 partitoins per above), hence each vg and lv > will initially be 1TB. As the FS grows on an lv, we'd > add another 1TB PV. > > |What blocksize are you using? > > Default - how does it matter in terms of the errors? I asked about filesystem size, not volume size. > The first few times I built everything it worked fine. > Now when I create the partitions and try to make each > one a PV, some fail as above. If I nuke them and start > over, I get more failures-- maybe the same ones fail the > same way, maybe not. Somewhere a config or resource > has gotten corrupt, but for the life of me I can't find > it. > > |What research have you done? > > I've gone through a half dozen docs on the web to set > things up. I googled for the error messages, but couldn't > find anything useful. > My research doesn't confirm that you _can_ do what you want using ext2 or ext3. I will have a better grasp if you answer the questions I asked. -- Cheers John -- spambait [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)