[linux-lvm] pv_move_pe() error again :/

FEJF fejf at gmx.de
Fri Sep 7 11:45:22 UTC 2001


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Heinz J . Mauelshagen, on Freitag, 7. September 2001 12:46 wrote:
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> Well, assuming your disk has a flaw, the only way to work around your
> problem is patching pv_move_pe() in order to ignore read errors (this takes
> place around line 520 in LVM 1.0) which will cause a copy of the data to
> some other device with probably flaky data in it.

search a bit through the file... but i actually don't know what to change 
there... would a single 
   ret:=1;
just before
   pe_moved += ret;
help ? 

> In case you've got some filesystem data in there, fsck will complain
> accordingly and some file or metadata of the filesystem will be gone which
> will cause more or less filesystem data loss.

loose some bytes is nothing against the whole lvm... ;)
fejf

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