> What I am worried here is the device mapper library is too old for lvm2. Here, I currently have rpm -qa | egrep -i "mapper|lvm2" device-mapper-1.02.78-20.2.2.x86_64 lvm2-2.02.98-43.21.1.x86_64 > What's the value of pvmetadatacopies in your lvm.conf? Or do you use this > parameter when creating the pv? grep pvmetadatacopies /etc/lvm/lvm.conf # pvmetadatacopies = 2 # on-disk metadata (pvmetadatacopies = 0). Or this can be in but, when I created this PV/VG, I used pvcreate -ff --metadatacopies 2 /dev/md1 Physical volume "/dev/md1" successfully created vgcreate -v -s 32M VG0 /dev/md1