On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 17:12 -0600, Shawn wrote: > 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? depends on how we define "disk fails" then. > > 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). if disk has some bad sectors but most other places are readable, then dd_rescue will be more than enough and follow this link should be ok. thanks for pointing out this link. > > 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. yes, data is 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. if it is single file system over all 3 HDs, then will the file system runs ok? i do not think so. > > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
