Recovering after loss of a physical volume with LVM2 on Linux

Recently I have lost a hard drive which contained a physical volume of LVM2.

It contained an insignificant file system with scratch data and a part of a RAID1 logical volume.

To recover, it was necessary to repair the RAID1 LV and remove other partial LV. I was surprised that the network lacked information on how to repair a RAID1 LV.

So here are the commands:

lvconvert --repair /dev/mapper/VG-LVraid1
lvremove /dev/mapper/VG-LVpartial
vgreduce --removemissing VG

A few glitches with Fedora 24 installations

I have noticed multiple times that when a process seems to hang, strace sometimes can kick it forward and cause it to proceed and either terminate as it should or fail with a signal.

There was a strange hang within systemd (PID 1), it apparently created a forked copy of itself which hung, and when I tried to strace the child process it failed with a signal. Then the parent (PID 1) ran pause() but any tries to send it SIGTERM or SIGUSR1 caused nothing, the pause() system call did not interrupt. I think that all signals were blocked. The systemd (PID 1) did not process parentless zombies either. Reboot was required.

One time when restarting mysqld it took forever to terminate, but finished in a second when I ran strace on it.

Another time, df hung due to unresponsive nfs. After I had unmounted the nfs filesystem using "umount -l -f" the df still lingered for minutes until I ran strace on it.

I suspect there is a bug in the kernel. And a bug in systemd.

kernel-4.9.9-100.fc24.x86_64
systemd-229-18.fc24.x86_64