HP-UX Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes (September 2007)

# lvextend -s –m 1 /dev/vg00/lvol8 /dev/disk/disk4
# lvsync -T /dev/vg00/lvol*
See lvmerge(1M), lvextend(1M), lvsync(1M), and vgsync(1M) for more information.
Changed Features
No LVM or MirrorDisk/UX features changed in the September 2007 release of HP-UX 11i v3.
Deprecated or Obsolete Features
No LVM or MirrorDisk/UX features are deprecated or obsolete in the September 2007 release of
HP-UX 11i v3.
Known Problems Fixed in This Version
The following table lists the known LVM and MirrorDisk/UX problems fixed in the September
2007 release of HP-UX 11i v3.
Table 1 LVM Fixes in HP-UX 11i v3 September 2007
DescriptionDefect ID
vgmodify-o and vgmodify-t-o give differing results.
CR: JAGag06010
SR: 8606448810
vgmodify calculates incorrect number of disks necessary for quorum.
CR: JAGag25837
SR: 8606470770
vgmodify leaves updated version of LVM configuration file in /etc/lvmconf file even
if update of first physical volume fails.
CR: JAGag26108
SR: 8606471063
When called with multiple logical volumes, lvsync serializes stale extent synchronization.
This fix brings the 11i v1 functionality introduced in PHCO_35313 to 11i v3.
CR: JAGag27181
SR: 8606472291
lvmchk script fails if PATH shell variable is not set.
CR: JAGag30416
SR: 8606476151
Due to proactive polling, measurement utilities such as sar may report high average I/O
service times for idle multi-pathed disks.
This fix incorporates the proactive polling fix from 11i v1 (PHCO_35955 and PHKL_35970)
and 11i v2 (PHCO_35524 and PHKL_36244).
CR: JAGag29125,
JAGag29473
SR: 8606474610,
8606475020
Volume groups in an SLVM environment take a long time to activate.CR: JAGag36573
SR: 8606483243
vgmodify reads LVM information from disks incorrectly. New LVM features which require
additional fields in the LVM structure may be nullified after an update.
CR: JAGag36630
SR: 8606483306
Mirror Consistency Record for a mirrored root volume group is not cleaned on shutdown,
causing unnecessary resynchronization.
CR: JAGag42798
SR: 8606490348
Known Problems and Limitations
No known problems were identified for this release of LVM and MirrorDisk/UX.
Known Problems Fixed in This Version 7