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From: Ray Morris <support@bettercgi.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Cc: rmu@unfoo.net
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] harddisk dies while pvmove is in progress
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:55:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110914115511.7209c08f@bettercgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E70566A.1040501@unfoo.net>

> For the record: finally, I edited the last metadata-backup, put the
> successfully mirrored segment on the raid into the LV (instead of the
> pvmovesomething mirror), removed references to pvmove, the damaged PV
> and the "homevideo" LV, vgcfgrestored the config, rebooted, and
> everything works.
> 
> Robert


It's good to know what kind of thing can actually work in practice.
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always good to know ways of recovering.
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On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:23:22 +0200
Robert Schöftner <rmu@unfoo.net> wrote:

> Am 2011-09-13 00:15, schrieb Robert Schöftner:
> > my plan is to edit the latest archived meta-data, remove the
> > pvmove-mirror, exchange the segment pointing to the missing device
> > with the mirrored segment, and vcfgrestore it, if no better idea
> > comes up. the saved metadata confirms that the segment belonging to
> > LV "shares" was completely mirrored before the harddisk died, so
> > all the needed data is there.
> For the record: finally, I edited the last metadata-backup, put the
> successfully mirrored segment on the raid into the LV (instead of the
> pvmovesomething mirror), removed references to pvmove, the damaged PV
> and the "homevideo" LV, vgcfgrestored the config, rebooted, and
> everything works.
> 
> Robert
> 
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> linux-lvm@redhat.com
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> 

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-14 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-12 20:30 [linux-lvm] harddisk dies while pvmove is in progress Robert Schöftner
2011-09-12 21:08 ` Stuart D. Gathman
2011-09-12 22:15   ` Robert Schöftner
2011-09-14  7:23     ` Robert Schöftner
2011-09-14 16:55       ` Ray Morris [this message]
2011-09-14 17:25       ` Stuart D. Gathman

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