On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 bscott@ntisys.com wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, at 8:58am, Montgomery Mouw wrote: > > I was just wondering if I mount 5 drives using LVM and say the forth drive > > dies, do I lose the data only on that forth drive or do I lose the data on > > the whole mount (all 5 drives data)? > > In general, you will lose everything. > > Technically: A drive is used to create a PV (Physical Volume). One or > more PVs is used to create an LV (Logical Volume). If the drive containing > a PV fails, that PV becomes unavailable. If an LV needs a PV, and that PV > is unavailable, the LV will become unavailable as well. > I thought changes were planned or done so that if a PV failed the vg could be force mounted and only the lvs on the unavailable PV would not be available.... James _______________________________________________ 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
