Re: LVM and mdadm
Hi.
On Sat, 4 Apr 2015 12:48:32 +0200
Petter Adsen <petter@synth.no> wrote:
> I've just finished setting up Jessie with mdadm and LVM, the latter of
> which I have never used before.
>
> /dev/md0 is a 1G mirror for /boot, no LVM there. /dev/md1 is a mirror,
> than consists of the major part of /dev/sda and /dev/sdb - both 250G.
> There are also 4G swap partitions on sda and sdb, no RAID there.
>
> The installation went smoothly, and I think I got everything right.
> However, when I run "pvdisplay -v", it says:
> DEGRADED MODE. Incomplete RAID LVs will be processed.
> Scanning for physical volume names
> --- Physical volume ---
> PV Name /dev/md1
> VG Name ROOTVG
> PV Size 227.90 GiB / not usable 2.00 MiB
> Allocatable yes
> PE Size 4.00 MiB
> Total PE 58342
> Free PE 17812
> Allocated PE 40530
> PV UUID bpoMmU-Z9w0-arNA-Q6Je-jdyl-P2nH-JiPtJY
>
> Does that mean there is something wrong with the mirror under LVM?
It's possible that you have logical volumes created with --mirrors
option, for example. It's not bad, just redundant (i.e. mirroring over
mirroring).
Please post the output of vgdisplay -v.
Reco
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