root:/ # lvs
/dev/5gbdisk_vg/5gbdisk: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 1073676288: Input/output error
/dev/5gbdisk_vg/5gbdisk: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 1073733632: Input/output error
/dev/5gbdisk_vg/5gbdisk: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/5gbdisk_vg/5gbdisk: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output error
/dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 0: Input/output error
/dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 10737352704: Input/output error
/dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 10737410048: Input/output error
/dev/sdc: read failed after 0 of 4096 at 4096: Input/output error
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Move Log Copy% Convert
home sp3tosp4 -wi-ao--- 4.00g
var sp3tosp4 -wi-ao--- 8.00g
root:/ #
When the disk was physically removed, the /dev/sdc and this device nodes wasn’t automatically removed. The above errors are clearly indicating that /dev/sdc and /dev/myvg/mylv can no longer be read due to the removal of the disk.
Remove the stale /dev/sdc device node and clean up the stale device-mapper nodes. In the above example, this would be accomplished by either a simple reboot, or by running the following:
root:/ # dmsetup remove –force /dev/5gbdisk_vg/5gbdisk
root:/ # echo 1 > /sys/block/sdc/device/delete
root:/ # pvs
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sdb sp3tosp4 lvm2 a-- 16.00g 4.00g
root:/ # lvs
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Move Log Copy% Convert
home sp3tosp4 -wi-ao--- 4.00g
var sp3tosp4 -wi-ao--- 8.00g
root:/ #