Why systemd.mountd does not always activate Volume groups(VGs) during server reboot?
Issue
- Server boots intermittently into emergency mode, having a minimal subset of the filesystems mounted each reboot
- system halt at boot time
- Packages installed for
device-mapperandlvm2
device-mapper-1.02.107-5.el7.x86_64
device-mapper-event-1.02.107-5.el7.x86_64
device-mapper-event-libs-1.02.107-5.el7.x86_64
device-mapper-libs-1.02.107-5.el7.x86_64
device-mapper-persistent-data-0.5.5-1.el7.x86_64
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lvm2-2.02.130-5.el7.x86_64
lvm2-libs-2.02.130-5.el7.x86_64
- We can not upgrade to 7.3 because our veritas product is not compatible 7.3 for the moment
# grep -i lvmetad /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
# If lvmetad is used, then see "A note about device filtering while
# lvmetad is used" comment that is attached to global/use_lvmetad setting.
use_lvmetad = 0
pvscan --cachealready run but issue is still there
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1(RHEL)
- Logical Volume Manager(lvm2)
- Systemd
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