[linux-lvm] HDD Failure
Mark Krenz
mark at suso.org
Mon Sep 18 19:37:28 UTC 2006
Nick,
LVM != RAID
You should have been doing RAID if you wanted to be able to handle the
failure of one drive.
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 07:34:37PM GMT, Nick [lists at mogmail.net] said the following:
> Hi Fabien,
>
> Yes, just one LV - "Vol1-share".
>
> Does this mean I've lost *everything*? I would have though I should be
> still be able to access everything on the two working disks?
>
> I don't have a backup of this data.
>
> Thanks, Nick
>
> root at nibiru:~# pvdisplay
> --- Physical volume ---
> PV Name /dev/hda4
> VG Name Vol1
> PV Size 106.79 GB / not usable 0
> Allocatable yes
> PE Size (KByte) 4096
> Total PE 27339
> Free PE 27339
> Allocated PE 0
> PV UUID Cq9xKF-W33m-BCLt-YyIc-EEfm-Btqc-eZLHNh
>
> --- Physical volume ---
> PV Name /dev/hdb1
> VG Name Vol1
> PV Size 111.75 GB / not usable 0
> Allocatable yes
> PE Size (KByte) 4096
> Total PE 28609
> Free PE 28609
> Allocated PE 0
> PV UUID hwQrhH-iXHO-Bots-6zUQ-w8JG-Nmb3-shqZiX
>
> root at nibiru:~# vgdisplay
> --- Volume group ---
> VG Name Vol1
> System ID
> Format lvm2
> Metadata Areas 2
> Metadata Sequence No 3
> VG Access read/write
> VG Status resizable
> MAX LV 0
> Cur LV 0
> Open LV 0
> Max PV 0
> Cur PV 2
> Act PV 2
> VG Size 218.55 GB
> PE Size 4.00 MB
> Total PE 55948
> Alloc PE / Size 0 / 0
> Free PE / Size 55948 / 218.55 GB
> VG UUID RORj4f-LAOJ-83YS-34lD-4YRM-FKP8-8hgXLg
>
>
> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 21:23 +0200, Fabien Jakimowicz wrote:
> > did you have only one lv in your vg ?
> >
> > if yes, you can go to your backups.
> >
> > what does pvdisplay and vgdisplay says ?
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