On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 09:44:21AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: > > This happened about a year ago, I have no record of which > version of LVM it was, except that it would have been Mandrake 9.1 > and the LVM subsystem that comes with that. are you sure about that? just because of http://lwn.net/Articles/26657/ ;) best, Herbert > The filesystem was XFS and the problems arose when I grew > some LV's and started filling them up with data. > > > "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com> writes: > > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 09:03:28AM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: > > > > > > Thanks, > > > I was a bit worried as one time I reassembled > > > a machine with two drives swapped around accidentally; > > > hdc and hde were swapped and had PV's in the same VG. > > > LVM got terribly confused even though vgscan is run > > > at boot time. Fortunately I had just taken a backup > > > before starting otherwise I'd have lost lots of data! > > > > Hmm, LVM should have covered that as Joe pointed out because > > PVs are found by identifier rather than actual devnode. > > > > Do you have detailed records of that problem still so that we > > can spot some light on this? > > > > > > > > > > > Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com> writes: > > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:14:59PM +1200, Steve Wray wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I have an existing LVM setup over 3 hard drives, > > > > > hda, hdc, hde, with PV's and VG's set up just so. > > > > > > > > > > I wish to add a new drive as the new hda, shifting > > > > > the other drives down the chain such that the old hda > > > > > becomes the new hdb and so forth. > [snip] > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
