[linux-lvm] RAID1/LVM lost my volume group
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Mon Mar 4 17:23:02 UTC 2002
Chris,
do you still have the metadata backup files in /etc/lvmconf/ ?
If yes, please send me all which belong to your missing VG for recovery
in private email to mge at sistina.com.
On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:24:24AM +0800, Chris Hamilton wrote:
> Hi, I have 4 drives set up as 2 RAID1s with a striped LVM across them.
>
> After rebooting a few times vgscan and vgchange have stopped finding my
> volume group.
> The pv* tools confirm that the physical volumes are still intact.
> Everytime I try to call
> vgcfgrestore or really any vg tool, they segfault if I specify the group.
>
> I have been using 2.4.19-pre1-ac1, 2.4.19-pre2-ac2 on a glibc 2.2.4
> system with lvm 1.03.
> The filesystem is (was) ext3. Is there any way to get this recovered?
> Why could it have happened?
>
> If I do have to start from zero, is there a recommended RAID 10-like
> configuration for LVM I can use? My goal is to have 10 reliability and
> snapshots for backup.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Hamilton
>
>
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