On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:45:02PM +0200, FEJF wrote: > Heinz J . Mauelshagen, on Montag, 10. September 2001 13:27 wrote: > > Ragnar, > > > > typically a dying source device will cause read to fail (~line 520 > > in pv_move_pe.c). This could be easily addressed by an 'ignore read errors' > > option and a fallback to BLOCK_SIZEed I/O in order to avoid as much data > > losses as possible. > > > > But I wonder, why in your case the locking of the PE failed. Are you able > > to reporduce your case and provide the error code? > > as the harddisc makes scary noise and i "loose" it after some hours without > and reboot. and have to wait a day or so to get it back. i think it's a > serious harddisc problem combined with some heat problem or so... Maybe switching to operator beer cooling might help ;-) > reproduce... hmm... prehaps try to throw your harddisc several times on the > ground ? ;) ;) > fejf > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-