"Perplexer" <perplexer@thz.net> writes: > Ahh I made a major typo .... it's a linear setup, not a striped one. > > You mentioned anyway that a recovery would be somewhat possible. > I'm using ext3 journaling fs on my LV. That's what I had. > Would I be able to mount this LV if one PV died, meaning I would see > all data except the part that was lost with that drive or would I > need to do anything special to make the LV mountable again ? It will depend on which part of the filesystem is lost. I had a 10 GB LV with various source code packages on it and lost maybe 2 GB somewhere in the middle of it. Obviously, everything on the dead disk was lost. The rest was mostly recovered, but many of the files ended up in lost+found. A different 20 GB LV had some 10-15 files each 0.5-1 GB in the root, and no subdirectories. This LV lost a GB or two at the beginning. All the files were gone, even those that were stored entirely on a good disk. The reason for this was that all the inode information for the root directory was stored on the bad part. I don't know how other filesystems will deal with such situations. I'm running RAID now to be somewhat safer. It was a good thing too, since one of the replacement disks turned out to be bad. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
