[linux-lvm] One of 8 PVs dead - Trying to rescue data from remaining 7
Old Fart
rascal.jumper-747 at cox.net
Sun Nov 27 14:21:45 UTC 2005
Craig Hagerman wrote:
> On 11/27/05, Old Fart <rascal.jumper-747 at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Craig Hagerman wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/31/05, Tom Robinson <tom.robinson at oxtel.com> wrote:
>>>
>> I use raid 5 just for this problem. Have dropped 2 of the 3 raid
>> devices and system keeps on truckin'. You can hot add devices back in
>> and keep going while they sync. Good luck.
>>
>>
>
> Yeah, this would work with 3 discs, but doesn't answer the general
> question about recovering data from a single LVM drive. In my 2 drive
> system it wouldn't work. Any other ideas? I would assume that if one
> drive failed it should be trivial to be able to access the information
> on the remaining drive. If not, then I would be a lot safer going back
> to a non-LVM system using the two drives as distinct partitions.
>
> Craig
>
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>
Take a look at a 2 disk raid 1 array as a pv. I have seen that array
degrade to 1 drive and the LV was ok.
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Regards,
Old Fart
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