11-27-2007
Did you do a vgcfgrestore to reinstate the LVM configuration onto the replacement disks?
Basically it looks like your system is doing a lot of work trying to figure out what happened to its disks.
Alternatively, if you had disk mirroring on, it could be syncing up the mirrors.
You can use the vgdisplay command to list your volume group (VG) info, and lvdisplay -v to show details of each logical volume (LV).
Also, beware that if one of the replaced disks was a root mirror disk, it may not work...
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lvscan
LVSCAN(8) System Manager's Manual LVSCAN(8)
NAME
lvscan - scan (all disks) for logical volumes
SYNOPSIS
lvscan [-b|--blockdevice] [-d|--debug] [-D|--disk] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose]
DESCRIPTION
lvscan scans all known volume groups or all supported LVM block devices in the system for defined logical volumes.
OPTIONS
-b, --blockdevice
Adds the device major and minor numbers to the display of each logical volume.
-d, --debug
Enables additional debugging output (if compiled with DEBUG).
-D, --disk
Scan for logical volumes on disk(s) instead of getting the information from the kernel.
-h, --help
Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
-v, --verbose
Gives verbose runtime information about lvscan's activities.
--version
Prints version number of tool and exits sucessfully.
DIAGNOSTICS
lvscan returns an exit code of 0 for success and > 0 for error:
1 no volume groups found
2 invalid volume group name
3 error getting VGDA from kernel
95 driver/module not in kernel
96 invalid I/O protocol version
97 error locking logical volume manager
98 invalid lvmtab (run vgscan(8))
99 invalid command line
SEE ALSO
lvm(8), lvcreate(8), lvdisplay(8)
AUTHOR
Heinz Mauelshagen <Linux-LVM@Sistina.com>
Heinz Mauelshagen LVM TOOLS LVSCAN(8)