[linux-lvm] Raid1 -> linear conversion = destroyed data

[Phillip Susi]

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On 12/10/2014 8:15 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 12/08/2014 03:59 PM, Jason Warr wrote:
>> I may have missed part of the discussion but in order to fully 
>> understand what is going on I'd like to know what arguments you 
>> used when you issued the "lvconvert --splitmirrors" command.
>> There are several options to it that can influence what happens
>> to the mirror members.
> 
> The exact sequence of commands was:
> 
> lvconvert --type raid1 -m 1 faldara/utopic /dev/sdb1 lvconvert
> --splitmirrors 1 --trackchanges faldara/utopic --name utopic-backup
> /dev/md0 lvconvert --splitmirrors 1 --trackchanges faldara/utopic
> --name utopic-backup /dev/md0
> 
> The idea was to start using the new drive exclusively while keeping
> a backup on the old drive.

So is this on someone's radar now as a critical bug?

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