From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k3LKYKBm000968 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:34:20 -0400 Received: from orca.ele.uri.edu (orca.ele.uri.edu [131.128.51.63]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3LKY97i027975 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:34:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM. Do i loose everything? From: Ming Zhang In-Reply-To: <4442C7D0.40206@ee.duth.gr> References: <4442C7D0.40206@ee.duth.gr> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:33:55 -0400 Message-Id: <1145651636.8556.200.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mingz@ele.uri.edu, LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LVM general discussion and development On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 01:40 +0300, 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? depends on how u define everything. if u have 3 disk and 1 disk fail, then u lose the data bytes on that disk only. but since u run ext3 on it. ext3 will not be able to run properly with that. then u will not be able to read u file out. so u lose u "files". try not do that with u important data. ming > > > I thank you in advance. > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/