I may not be in as bad of shape as I think i am. lslv -l hd2 shows hdisk1 with a 0% in the IN BAND column, which from the man pages sounds like the OS is not writing to the lv anymore.
Sorry, but: no. The "in band" means something completely different and has nothing to do with your problem. "In band" means: when you create LVs they are placed fittingly on the disk so that there is no place for extension. Like this, where a,b,c... mean the PPs of various LVs and X means free PPs:
Now, when you extend LVs or shrink them you over time end in a situation where this strict succcession is broken up, like this:
The initial situation is what is meant by "in band 100%": all the LVs are physically placed in one piece and the PPs are in the order of ascending LPs. Once your disk becomes more and more disorganised you can rectify this with the reorgvg command which moves around all the PPs until they are in order again. In your case the "in band 100%" comes from all PPs assigned to hd2 are placed on the "center" part of hdisk0 but on hdisk1 39 of the 40 are placed on "outer middle" and one is placed on "outer edge". Therefore the "in band" indicator shows 0%. But again, this has nothing to do with your problem.
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returns with no errors.
This just means that the information in the ODM about the composition of the rootvg is accurate. This is a good thing but still does not help your problem.
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It almost seems like i could just pull hdisk1 out and be ok at this point.
DON'T!!
As i said before the information about the VG is stored in the ODM and if you simply remove the disk (without using the reducevg procedure i explained above) you end with this information being NOT accurate any more. Prepare to manually repair the ODM in a rather tedious fashion afterwards if you do that. (Don't think you could put in another disk to make up: disks are identified by a unique "PVID" when they become part of a VG, so the system knows that this disk is not that disk.) Before you pull out the disk remove it cleanly from the ODM and this is done by using the commands i explained above.
I hope this helps.
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