On Sunday 16 April 2006 16:40, kyr wrote: > Hello, > > I wound be thankful if you can answer one simple question that I > haven't found the answer in all the LVM manuals, FAQ, howtos. > > I have a continuous (not stiped) VG consisting of 3 PV (Hard Disks) with > one LV on EXT3. > > If one hard disk fails (hardware) will i loose everything on all disks? I'm far from an expert with LVM, but I think the answer is a safe No. And even further, you could possibly recover the data on the damaged drive (see http://grover.open2space.com/node/17). The data stored on that particular drive might become in accessible (without any recovery efforts), but the data sitting on the other drives should still be there. I'm taking a guess based on what I saw during a data recovery process, but... It looks like the drive/partition is tagged as being part of a volume, and then the appropriate file system is applied. If this is the case, then loosing a drive should not corrupt your filesystem on the remaining drives. I am not comfortable enough with my knowledge to say this is anywhere near authoritative. But I do hope I helped... Shawn _______________________________________________ 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/
