On Friday 10 January 2003 22:38, lvm@interlinx.bc.ca wrote: > If I had a system with a functional LVM configuration (1.0.6ish) and I > were to "duplicate" the drive in it (i.e. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb) > and then try to boot that system (with both drives installed and > functional), what would happen? > > Of course, because I am asking, I have tried it. :-) During boot LVM > failed to find any logical volumes. Is this expected? It's not > surprising mind you, but I wonder how it was designed to deal with > this situation. Sorry, but this is a normal reaction of the logical volume manager. Why? Each "normal" volume manager uses a special part of the disk device (or a special part of a partition) to identify the physical media. If you copy the complete disk, you also copy this unique identifier. So LVM get confused to find a media twice. Best regards Fabian Herschel > > b. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- -- <Fabian.Herschel@suse.de> SuSE Linux AG * Mergenthalerallee 45-47 * D-65760 Eschborn Tel: +49-6196-50951-23 * Fax: +49-6196-409-607 http://www.suse.de * Alice Homepage: http://www.suse.de/~fabian _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
