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Hi All,

I am getting a lot of the following messages:

/etc/lvm/archive/.lvm_ny476.cup.hp.com_24035_984827937: rename to /etc/lvm/archive/vgsb1_01871.vg failed: File exists

I don't know is how this happens. I cannot find any documentation on this message. Any pointers?

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/etc/lvm/archive/.lvm_ny476.cup.hp.com_24035_984827937: rename to /etc/lvm/archive/vgsb1_01871.vg failed: File exists

I don't know is how this happens. I cannot find any documentation on this message. Any pointers?

Exactly what version of LVM is this?
(And does the file exist? Is /etc a local, writeable filesystem?)

Alasdair

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Hi,

[root@ny176 log]# lvm version
LVM version: 2.01.14 (2005-08-04)
Library version: 1.01.04 (2005-08-02)
Driver version: 4.4.0

/etc/ is a local writeable filesystem. I believe this occurs when I'm issuing a vgchange --addtag and/or vgchange -a y. I have scripts scripts that are executing these commands but nothing that should be done in parallel.

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/etc/lvm/archive/.lvm_ny476.cup.hp.com_24035_984827937: rename to /etc/lvm/archive/vgsb1_01871.vg failed: File exists

I don't know is how this happens. I cannot find any documentation on this message. Any pointers?

Exactly what version of LVM is this?
(And does the file exist? Is /etc a local, writeable filesystem?)

Alasdair

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Quoted 4 lines · John DeFranco

/etc/ is a local writeable filesystem. I believe this occurs when I'm issuing a vgchange --addtag and/or vgchange -a y. I have scripts scripts that are executing these commands but nothing that should be done in parallel.

And you have default locking enabled?
locking_type = 1 locking_dir = "/var/lock/lvm"
in lvm.conf with /var also local

Perhaps there's some race in the backup file code:
It would be useful to have a list of all the lvm commands that might possibly be executing against each other.

Alasdair

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Quoted 2 lines · John DeFranco

/etc/ is a local writeable filesystem. I believe this occurs when I'm issuing a vgchange --addtag and/or vgchange -a y. I have scripts scripts that are executing these commands but nothing that should be done in parallel.

And you have default locking enabled?
locking_type = 1 locking_dir = "/var/lock/lvm"
in lvm.conf with /var also local

Yes to all.

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Perhaps there's some race in the backup file code:
It would be useful to have a list of all the lvm commands that might possibly be executing against each other.

I'm trying to assemble that list.

Thanks.

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