[linux-lvm] Bad disk removal

[Barnaby Claydon <bclaydon@volved.com>]

Hey all,

So after lots of scans and log review, turns out 1 of the 8 IDE disks in 
my LVM is bad. (I know, IDE, yeahyeah...)

I currently have the affected volume group online, and it's mounted in 
XFS readonly,norecovery mode. XFS can't attempt repair because one of 
the bad sectors is the superblock so xfs_repair bombs.

Unfortunately I don't have 1.2TB of free space available to try and pull 
all the data off the VG before rebuilding it and replacing the failed 
drive. If I get a replacement for the bad drive and extend the VG, my 
question would be:

How fault tolerant is pvmove if it encounters unreadable/bad sectors on 
a disk? Will I hose the entire VG if pvmove bombs? Will pvmove skip the 
bad sectors after a few attempts and move on? Will pvmove refuse to even 
try?

I'm sure someone's had experience with this before. :) (Obviously I 
don't have RAID underneath the LVM, otherwise I'm sure this would be 
moot... lesson learned.)

Thanks all,
-Barnaby