Some of the local lvm volumes in root volume group are not getting activated automatically during boot process
Issue
- Some of the local lvm volumes in root volume group are not getting activated automatically during boot process
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The system is having following lvm volumes:
$ lvs -a -o+lv_tags,devices LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Meta% Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert LV Tags Devices homevol vg_system -wi-ao---- 14.88g /dev/sdb1(2250) homevol vg_system -wi-ao---- 14.88g /dev/sdb1(27676) optvol vg_system -wi-ao---- 4.88g /dev/sdb1(1000) rootvol vg_system -wi-ao---- 7.81g /dev/sdb1(7500) swapvol vg_system -wi-ao---- 3.91g /dev/sdb1(0) tmpvol vg_system -wi-ao---- 4.95g /dev/sdb1(3500) tmpvol vg_system -wi-ao---- 4.95g /dev/sdb1(24860) usrvol vg_system -wi-ao---- 7.88g /dev/sdb1(6250) usrvol vg_system -wi-ao---- 7.88g /dev/sdb1(25628) varlogvol vg_system -wi-ao---- 9.88g /dev/sdb1(4000) varlogvol vg_system -wi-ao---- 9.88g /dev/sdb1(26396) varvol vg_system -wi-ao---- 63.91g /dev/sdb1(5250) varvol vg_system -wi-ao---- 63.91g /dev/sdb1(9500)All the above lvm volumes are created using a partition on internal disk
/dev/sdb. During the boot process, following lvm volumes are getting activated without any issues:/dev/vg_system/rootvol /dev/vg_system/swapvol /dev/vg_system/usrvolBut the activation of following lvm volumes fails with below errors:
/dev/vg_system/homevol /dev/vg_system/optvol /dev/vg_system/tmpvol /dev/vg_system/varvol /dev/vg_system/varlogvol -
Within a set of local LVM volumes, a subset of VG/LV fails to get activated at the time of boot resulting in the server to land in maintenance mode.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, 9
- LVM2
- With or without Pacemaker Cluster
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