From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from null.msp.redhat.com (null.msp.redhat.com [10.15.80.136]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j5KFjoq9003815 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:45:50 -0400 Received: from null.msp.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by null.msp.redhat.com (8.13.4/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j5KFjnnY032235 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:45:50 -0500 Received: (from alewis@localhost) by null.msp.redhat.com (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j5KFjnIw032233 for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:45:49 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:45:49 -0500 From: AJ Lewis Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Is LVM safe? Message-ID: <20050620154549.GD12491@null.msp.redhat.com> References: <1119268975.25392.34.camel@volt> <200506201517.01268.krienke@uni-koblenz.de> <1119275366.25392.48.camel@volt> <20050620144233.GB12491@null.msp.redhat.com> <1119279649.18965.24.camel@volt> <20050620151211.GC12491@null.msp.redhat.com> <1119281255.18965.29.camel@volt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IMjqdzrDRly81ofr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1119281255.18965.29.camel@volt> Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: To: LVM general discussion and development --IMjqdzrDRly81ofr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:27:35PM +0100, John Rowe wrote: >=20 > > =20 > > > The idea that a disk partition needs Unix file to be able to read it = is > > > absolutely astonishing. > >=20 > > What? >=20 > I'm getting two different answers here. One person says I don't > need /etc/lvm.*, the other says I do! Ok, so the only time you *need* /etc/lvm/* is if you have to recover from b= ad metadata. Every PV in your VG has a complete copy of the metadata for that VG, so you have multiple copies of the layout - if you have one of these, y= ou can recover your LVM setup. =20 > FWIW, I'm running Linux version 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL having 'upgraded' from > RedHat9 to Scientific Linux 4 (a RedHat Enterprise clone), and I can't > see my LVM.. Seeing the output of 'vgscan -vvv' and 'vgchange -ay -vvv' would be helpful= - maybe you could toss it up on pastebin.com? =20 > Of course I have backups but it worries me for the future. --=20 AJ Lewis Voice: 612-638-0500 Red Hat Inc. E-Mail: alewis@redhat.com One Main Street SE, Suite 209 Minneapolis, MN 55414 =20 Current GPG fingerprint =3D D9F8 EDCE 4242 855F A03D 9B63 F50C 54A8 578C 8= 715 Grab the key at: http://people.redhat.com/alewis/gpg.html or one of the many keyservers out there... --IMjqdzrDRly81ofr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCtuSt9QxUqFeMhxURAlBkAJ0USsVQp77GeSz05ERbEnhvQWljewCbBRtv KzsqCVBU6gsD6jcOHfKdYLw= =Hsq2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IMjqdzrDRly81ofr--