You may be able to place the flakey target on top of loop device to simulate device failure. -Malahal. Stuart D. Gathman [stuart@bmsi.com] wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 malahal@us.ibm.com wrote: > > > It would be a lot cheaper if you can test it with loop devices! > > Loop devices don't let you disconnect them while active (or at least they > complain and I've never tried to override them). The torture test is > removing the drive while active in the VG, file system mounted, etc. > > > Stuart D. Gathman [stuart@bmsi.com] wrote: > > > I think an inexpensive torture test of this logic is to get 3 or 4 external USB > > > drives, put them all in a VG, and start playing games with hotplugging them. > > > (E.g. unplug drive, vgreduce, plug drive back in). > > -- > Stuart D. Gathman <stuart@bmsi.com> > Business Management Systems Inc. Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154 > "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus addictis" - background song for > a Microsoft sponsored "Where do you want to go from here?" commercial. _______________________________________________ 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/