On 04/29/2012 07:29 PM, Shaya Potter wrote:

however, now I need to figure out how to recreate the lvm appropriately.
I see the configuration "file" in at the start of the raid array (less
-f /dev/md0 which I'm including below)

I asusme there should be a way to reuse this data to recreate the lvm?

any continued advice would be appreciated, googling doesn't seem to come
up with much if one doesn't have a backup of the lvm data.

<configuration snipped>

found an old linux journal article that seems to say what I should do, 
but not working.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8874?page=0,2

root@nas:~# vgcfgrestore -f 1.cfg raid5
   Incorrect metadata area header checksum
   Incorrect metadata area header checksum
   Restore failed.