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From: Shawn <sgrover@open2space.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM. Do i loose everything?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:12:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604211712.42503.sgrover@open2space.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4442C7D0.40206@ee.duth.gr>

On Sunday 16 April 2006 16:40, kyr wrote:
> Hello,
>
>      I wound be thankful if you can answer one simple question that I
> haven't found the answer in all the LVM manuals, FAQ, howtos.
>
> I have a continuous (not stiped) VG consisting of 3 PV (Hard Disks) with
> one LV on EXT3.
>
> If one hard disk fails (hardware) will i loose everything on all disks?

I'm far from an expert with LVM, but I think the answer is a safe No.  And 
even further, you could possibly recover the data on the damaged drive (see 
http://grover.open2space.com/node/17).

The data stored on that particular drive might become in accessible (without 
any recovery efforts), but the data sitting on the other drives should still 
be there.  

I'm taking a guess based on what I saw during a data recovery process, but...  
It looks like the drive/partition is tagged as being part of a volume, and 
then the appropriate file system is applied.  If this is the case, then 
loosing a drive should not corrupt your filesystem on the remaining drives.  

I am not comfortable enough with my knowledge to say this is anywhere near 
authoritative.  But I do hope I helped...

Shawn

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-22  0:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-16 22:40 [linux-lvm] LVM. Do i loose everything? kyr
2006-04-21 20:33 ` Ming Zhang
2006-04-21 23:12 ` Shawn [this message]
2006-04-22 16:03   ` Ming Zhang

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