Attempting to add a pvid to a lun in AIX's LVM leads to error "device busy error 0514-062" when running AIX's chdev command
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Description
Error Message
A lun had been freed from Volume Manager by running a deport of the relevant diskgroup and a vxdisksetup on the lun. An attempt was made to add a pvid to the lun using LVM:
#chdev -l hdisk1 -a pv=yes
Method error (/usr/lib/methods/ucfgdevice):
0514-062 Cannot perform the requested function because the
specified device is busy.
Resolution
At the time, the lun was still visible at Volume Manager level:
# vxdisk list|grep hdisk30
hdisk30 auto:none - - online invalid
An attempt was made to remove the lun from Volume Manager's view, and the original operation then completed:
# vxdisk rm hdisk30
# chdev -l hdisk30 -a pv=yes
hdisk30 changed
Applies To
AIX 5.3 and Storage Foundation 5.0MP3
Issue/Introduction
After a lun has been in use by Volume Manager, it is not possible to use it with AIX's LVM as the lun is shown as busy.
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