[linux-lvm] disaster recovery

[Rene Gallati]

Rene Gallati wrote:
> I'm wondering if I have all the tools required to attemp to recover the 
> remaining data from the good drive?
[..]

Having recieved no answer I just stepped ahead and tried it in another 
system I set up only for the recovery process. First I tried to patch a 
stock SuSE 8.1 kernel (2.4.19-4GB) which failed as expected. Then I went 
and fetched a vanilla 2.4.20 from my local kernel.org mirror - and that 
failed miserably too !

Looked into device-mapper's directory structure and decieded to fetch a 
2.4.19 vanilla which finally succeeded. You really might want to add 
that information to device-mapper's README or INSTALL - especially since 
  people who have hosed LV's are probably going to use LVM2 the most.

So out of the 4LVs that were in the VG, I could get out the data from 
two smaller ones that were completely within the first still good disk. 
However the other two I couldn't mount. One I did expect but the other 
not. One out of those two LVs was spanning the disks, and the latter 
disk is now gone for good. Anyone knows a nice trick to get reiserfs 
allowing me to mount that LV anyway and get out what's left ?

Or am I completely lost there?

Thanks for all answers in advance.

CU

René

btw. recovering from hd failure is really cool when they turn off your 
net connectivity because of some MS-SQL worm... :-/