Re: ghost disk with identical PVID

From: Hajo Ehlers (service_at_metamodul.com)
Date: 09/27/05 

Date: 27 Sep 2005 01:36:49 -0700

In a simple SAN environment with 2 FC HBA to the same SAN Storage you
get this kind of problem pretty easy as long as you do not use any
Zoning or load balancing software

In this kind of setup the output from lspv would be absolut correct
because the LVM does see the same Disk through two different adapters.
So from a working point of view you should have no problems because the
LVM takes the first disk it sees and uses this one.

But for further help we need a little more details about the HW SAN
setup
Also you are talking about 2 FASTT's and about this SAN-Storage i do
not know to much.

At least DO NOT do any reducevg or rmdev

hth
Hajo

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