"Unable to drop cached metadata for VG" for clustered LVM VG on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Issue
Unable to drop cached metadata for VG message when executing lvcreate/lvextend:
# lvcreate -L 14G -n swap1 vgcluster
clvmd not running on node node2
Unable to drop cached metadata for VG vgcluster.
clvmd not running on node node2
# echo $?
5
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 (with the Resilient Storage Add Ons)
- 2 or more node Red Hat Cluster Suite cluster
- Clustered LVM (CLVM) Volume Group shared across cluster nodes
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