Why do I see 'Found duplicate PV' warnings when using LVM with multipath storage in RHEL?
Issue
Found duplicate PVwarning messages after system boots up-
LVM commands (such as
vgs,lvchange, etc) display messages like this when trying to list VG or LV:Found duplicate PV GDjTZf7Y03GJHjteqOwrye2dcSCjdaUi: using /dev/dm-5 not /dev/sdd Found duplicate PV GDjTZf7Y03GJHjteqOwrye2dcSCjdaUi: using /dev/emcpowerb not /dev/sde Found duplicate PV GDjTZf7Y03GJHjteqOwrye2dcSCjdaUi: using /dev/sddlmab not /dev/sdf -
How can I get rid of duplicate PV messages display by LVM commands? ⤵
- Why do I get duplicate PV warnings when I run LVM commands? ⤵
- I have scsi SAN Lun configured from storage, filesystem is configured over LVM which is created on top of multipath. Why do my physical volumes show as
sddevices instead ofmpathdevices? ⤵ - Why am I getting duplicate UUID warnings when I have
multipath_component_detection = 1set within/etc/lvm/lvm.conf? ⤵
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- lvm2
- Multiple paths to storage device(s)
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