[linux-lvm] disk failed

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Hi Carl.

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 05:33:35PM +0800, carl.huang [üS½¨äh] wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I'm new to lvm and sorry for my english.
> 
> I have a question: if I create a lv on vg that consists of
> /dev/hdb,/dev/hdc,/dev/hdd. Now if disk /dev/hdb fails,will all the data on
> the lv be lost?  I make an experiment: if /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd fails, the
> data will only
> lose on the failed disk, but if /dev/hdb fails ,the lv will not work. I

If your LV containing a filesystem is spread over all 3 PVs and one fails,
that part of your filesystem will not be accessable after you restored
the LVM metadata to a replacement drive.

> think the reason is the filesystem(ext2) metadata is stored on the first
> disk. If filesystem is reiserfs, the lv will also not work more no matter
> what disk fails.

Filesystems typically spread their metadata and data over the underlying
device. So it depends on the fill degree and usage patterns how much data
you might lose with your drive.

> 
> So it's really a risk to use multiple disks together? 

If you don't have disk redundancy (RAID either with Linux MD or in Hardware),
grouping multiple drives together grows the likelyhood to lose data.

> How to avoid it or I make a mistake?

Use RAID to avoid losing data due to hardware flaws
and take backups.

> 
> Thanks for any suggestion.
> 
> Carl.
> 
> 
> 
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