[linux-lvm] pvmove and badsectors

[Dieter Stueken]

Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:
> pvmove moves data chunk by chunk (64kB).
> 
> If such chunk read fails, it retries rereading the failed chunk sector
> by sector in order to retrieve as much data as possible.

I'm about to try it. But afterwards I like to analyze which files
are affected using "debugfs". As far as I understand the code, any
unreadable sector is zeroed. The printf reports about the unreadable
sector, but only prints the # of the sector from the input device.
Instead I'm interested on where the zeroed sector ends up on the
destionation device, to locate it later on. Questions:

the printed sector number counts 512 byte sectors?
If I run pvmove -v, it reports the PE# and LE# of the
PE currently copying. I hope I can calculate this way:

Get sector# modulo PE size to get the relative position
of the broken sector within the PE, and using the destionation
LE# + the offset to get the sector # on the LV after the
move. Right?

Suggestion:
write such informations to syslog to be sure this is
saved somewhere. If this is printed on screen olny, I may loose
this information easily and won't have any change to locate the
broken sector later on.

Dieter.
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