On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:11:39PM +0000, James Hawtin wrote: > 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.... As Alasdair said that support will show up later in LVM2. It is in unstable LVM1.1 already. See the other RAID > 0 thread on this list if you want to have disk redundancy in order to avoid such SPOFs. BTW: LVM2 will support mirroring directly later this year. > > 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 -- 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
