On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Jim Schatzman wrote:
> I made the mistake of trying to use pvmove to move any good data from a bad
> disk to a new identical good disk in an LV. Unfortunately, the Pvmove failed
> in midoperation. It cannot now be aborted, presumably because of the bad
> disk.
I've noticed that LVM has big problems handling partially failed drives.
I think this is largely due to the difficulty of testing. It is simple
enough to simulate completely failed drives. I've tested this by disconnecting
the power from a drive while the system is running (I'm sure there are
safer ways.) However, a partially failed drive (lots of bad sectors) is
another matter.
I wish there was a SMART command to a drive that would tell it to pretend a
range of sectors is bad until further notice (without actually remapping said
sectors). This would be a great help is debugging the error handling of things
like LVM. In fact, maybe there already is such a feature in SMART, and
it just isn't widely known.
--
Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com>
Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
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