Chris, do you still have the metadata backup files in /etc/lvmconf/ ? If yes, please send me all which belong to your missing VG for recovery in private email to mge@sistina.com. On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:24:24AM +0800, Chris Hamilton wrote: > Hi, I have 4 drives set up as 2 RAID1s with a striped LVM across them. > > After rebooting a few times vgscan and vgchange have stopped finding my > volume group. > The pv* tools confirm that the physical volumes are still intact. > Everytime I try to call > vgcfgrestore or really any vg tool, they segfault if I specify the group. > > I have been using 2.4.19-pre1-ac1, 2.4.19-pre2-ac2 on a glibc 2.2.4 > system with lvm 1.03. > The filesystem is (was) ext3. Is there any way to get this recovered? > Why could it have happened? > > If I do have to start from zero, is there a recommended RAID 10-like > configuration for LVM I can use? My goal is to have 10 reliability and > snapshots for backup. > > Thanks, > Chris Hamilton > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ 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