On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Peter Larsen wrote:
> Again, you misunderstood Stuart's comment. He didn't say your RAID
> migration didn't work. He said it wasn't optimal.
Actually, I *was* hypothesizing that the RAID migration scrambled the data.
But apparently, that was not the problem because:
> > But after the deletion of the partion, recreation and pvcreate
>
> That's the error. There's a pvresize for a reason. You also need to use
Yes, the pvcreate just hosed your metadata. If you have a backup of the
metadata (somewhere other than an affected LV), you can restore it,
and then do the pvresize.
> No - your use of LVM was wrong. Not LVM itself.
Having used AIX LVM, I can say that Linux LVM has a way to go before
it reaches that level of ease of use. But it keeps getting better,
and I get to participate!
--
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.
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