[linux-lvm] Poison pills

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 malahal at us.ibm.com wrote:

> It would be a lot cheaper if you can test it with loop devices!

Loop devices don't let you disconnect them while active (or at least they
complain and I've never tried to override them).  The torture test is
removing the drive while active in the VG, file system mounted, etc.

> Stuart D. Gathman [stuart at bmsi.com] wrote:
> > I think an inexpensive torture test of this logic is to get 3 or 4 external USB
> > drives, put them all in a VG, and start playing games with hotplugging them.
> > (E.g. unplug drive, vgreduce, plug drive back in).

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