[linux-lvm] system crash caused by lvm's fault?

[Joe Thornber]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 01:54:04PM +0200, NagyZ wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> 
> > You need to make sure, that your (disk) power supply is sufficient, sorry.
> i have already done it, i just want to be sure.
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > and an other question:
> > > i have a VG from 2 partition. (on 2 HDD)
> > > if one fell off, then how can i access the data on the remaining disk?
> > 
> > LVM2 has a partial activation feature for this case which will activate
> > such a partially available volume group.
> > 
> > Which filesystem or other data is still usable heavily depends on your
> > allocation.
> > 
> when will lvm2 be stable?

The only reason lvm2 is still officially in beta is because the pvmove
command hasn't been implemented yet.  I would use LVM2 in preference to LVM1.

- Joe