I've been using LVM on a test system for a couple of months now, and sofar have had no problems. We have two VG's, one made up of multiple SCSI drives and one consisting of a single large IDE drive. The IDE VG is used for more storage, while the SCSI VG is used for more active applications (cyrus imap, home directores etc). A few weeks ago the IDE VG was destroyed by attempting to install LILO on the drive (there was confusion over how the system was setup). The system was also configured with the IDE as slave with no master. The system was repaired and believed to be running properly, until yesterday where we discovered that some of our ISO's were wrong, consistently wrong in inconsistent locations. I've pasted in a record of the symptoms. If anyone has any advice on what else to diagnose (if your intrested in what is wrong) or how to repair It would be greatly appreciated. I have not rebooted the machine yet, wanting to be sure that any diagnoses that can be done is done. ----------------------------------------------------------------- in /var/export/iso LV /dev/ide/iso VG ide [root@ike iso]# md5sum enigma-i386-disc1.iso enigma-i386-disc1.iso enigma-i386-disc1.iso 83edcc827cdc3db2b4b0237bab59b1dd enigma-i386-disc1.iso 13b425cda141e3263be34a37f237b410 enigma-i386-disc1.iso 5b4ade7fcc64bf587c266935ff9e4a2d enigma-i386-disc1.iso [root@ike iso]# md5sum seawolf-i386-disc1.iso seawolf-i386-disc1.iso 10bd7359091e3ce93b6b8da8eaed7afe seawolf-i386-disc1.iso e5ef0aa5922e45d39efffe04e904e739 seawolf-i386-disc1.iso in /var/export/mp3/zweers LV /dev/ide/mp3 VG ide [root@ike zweers]# md5sum enigma-i386-disc1.iso enigma-i386-disc1.iso 18fd4da5a7b33e1598e88ff717aabbe6 enigma-i386-disc1.iso b0a11d0a5efa523e136a0b5e2157334d enigma-i386-disc1.iso [root@ike iso]# cmp -l enigma-i386-disc1.iso ~carl/enigma-i386-disc1.iso 2549832 77 67 13431928 177 167 14489440 376 366 27451404 177 173 33149724 376 336 86298228 177 167 116907524 372 332 119130964 77 67 121124171 376 356 [root@ike iso]# cmp -l enigma-i386-disc1.iso ~carl/enigma-i386-disc1.iso 2549832 77 67 11455071 177 167 13431928 177 167 18043044 277 273 24780964 277 273 86298228 177 167 94133044 370 330 106966431 177 167 [root@ike iso]# cmp -l enigma-i386-disc1.iso ~carl/enigma-i386-disc1.iso | wc -l 62 [root@ike iso]# ls -l enigma-i386-disc1.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 677961728 Feb 4 20:31 enigma-i386-disc1.iso [root@ike iso]# fsck -n /dev/ide/iso Parallelizing fsck version 1.23 (15-Aug-2001) e2fsck 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Warning! /dev/ide/iso is mounted. /dev/ide/iso: clean, 24/1281696 files, 1351397/2560000 blocks _______________________________________________ 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
